On 10/20/14 13:36, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> Am 20.10.2014 um 10:19 schrieb David Chisnall <thera...@freebsd.org>: >> >> >> I presume that most of the relevant differences are for users / developers >> and not sysadmins? It's worth noting that GNU coreutils, tar, bash, and a >> load of other things are in the ports repository. I wonder if it's worth >> having a gnu-userland metaport, perhaps with something like the Solaris >> approach of sticking them all in a different tree so that you can just add >> that to the start of your PATH and have all of the GNU tools work by >> default. >> > > > They use chef. > The chef omnibus installer assumes there is a /bin/bash. Even the FreeBSD > version of it. Well, it least it did the last time I looked. Maybe this got > fixed in the meantime. > Which means that to „bootstrap“ a node, you’ve first got to install pkg on > it, install bash, symlink it to /bin/bash and then bootstrap the node. > Which kind of runs against the concept of doing everything via chef. > > >
Hi from sysutils/ansible maintainer! The ansible port REINPLACE_CMDs away hardcoded paths at build time. This way managing FreeBSD "just works". Maybe chef can benefit from the same approach? - Nikolai Lifanov _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
