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fnichol / knife-server

A Chef Knife plugin to manage Chef Servers. Bootstrap a new Chef Server on Amazon's EC2, Digital Ocean, Linode, OpenStack or a standalone server. Backup and restore your Chef Server or Hosted Chef's node, role, data bag, and environment JSON data.
http://fnichol.github.com/knife-server
Apache License 2.0
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Chef-server not for debian anymore? #37

Closed pierreozoux closed 10 years ago

pierreozoux commented 11 years ago

Hi,

I found your plugin, and I was in love, until...I tested it and noticed that it was pointing to a deadlink... And I noticed that Opscode don't support officially debian anymore?

http://www.opscode.com/chef/install/

But I managed to install it on debian, this way : 

apt-get update 
apt-get upgrade

echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update

apt-get -t experimental install libc6

wget https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu/12.04/x86_64/chef-server_11.0.8-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb

dpkg -i chef-server_11.0.8-1.ubuntu.12.04_amd64.deb

chef-server-ctl reconfigure

If some people are interested, I will work on a patch for your great plugin!

christg76 commented 11 years ago

I'm having the same problem. Just wonder have you had any problems with the experimental libc6, did you install 2.17?

tmatilai commented 11 years ago

You don't need to upgrade libc6, just use an Omnibus package that has been built with old enough version. The package for Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 should work for Debian Wheezy. (And probably the 10.04 version for Squeeze)

fnichol commented 10 years ago

As it currently stands, only Ubuntu and "Enterprise Linux" (i.e. RHEL, Centos, possibly Fedora and Amazon) Omnibus packages are being built by Chef Software. @tmatilai is correct that the Ubuntu package should work on Debian, but the Omnitruck API downloader won't yield a URL to that package when run on Debian.

So as a middleground, as of 756cf01292b788274977b31af2aa8bbc26263f9d, you can use a --url flag to specify exactly which package you want downloaded and installed. I'm hopeful that this will help anyone use this plugin with upstream Omnibus packages on a less-than-supported OS distribution.

In other words, I guess the short answer to the above question (and sorry about the long delay) is no, however it may still be possible :smile: