What a coincidence. I just found a SmartOS bootstrap template and edited the 
packages for base64/14.1.0:

https://github.com/mattconnolly/knife-bootstrap-smartos

I’m just learning chef, so I’m sure it can be improved.


-Matt

On 23 May 2014, at 11:58 pm, Alain O'Dea via smartos-discuss 
<[email protected]> wrote:

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> I have to echo that.  Please talk about Chef on SmartOS more.  We use
> it extensively at work and would like to see more adoption of it.
> 
> I currently use a custom bootstrap template (with knife bootstrap
> - - --distro) to achieve this, but a genuine Omnibus installer would be
> much cleaner especially in the presence of other Ruby installs on the
> system.
> 
> Here is my custom bootstrap template:
> https://gist.github.com/AlainODea/738fe18d7ac73fd00f46
> 
> On Fri 23 May 2014 12:49:03 PM UTC, Elijah Wright via smartos-discuss
> wrote:
>> 
>> That version of omnibus is way less hacked up than it used to be;  I
>> know Ben's still working on improvements there, as time permits.  From
>> what I recall, there's a bit or two that doesn't build properly by
>> default.  It's definitely not a pkgtrans of the Sol11 bits - it's a
>> real build.
>> 
>> I'm gonna take a whack at building it right now;  I'll go file bugs as
>> I find stuff.  Working with a checkout
>> of https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef from 5 minutes ago, in a
>> base64 13.4.1 zone.
>> 
>> If chef-on-SmartOS is important to you, make sure you keep mentioning
>> it so folks at both Joyent and Chef-nee-Opscode know how useful proper
>> support is ;-)
>> 
>> --e
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Coy Hile via smartos-discuss
>> <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Hi all,
>> 
>>    I’ve seen Ben’s mentions in presentations and the like of using
>>    his hacked up omnibus installer for Chef Solo on SmartOS, and I
>>    myself currently am playing with the one he graciously hosts on
>>    cuddletech for 11.6.0.  Is there documentation anywhere how those
>>    archives are created?
>> 
>>    Is it something so simple as pkgrans the  data stream from Chef’s
>>    omnibus Solaris 11 installer into a directory and create a shar of
>>    that?  At some point, 11.6.0 won’t be “new enough”, and I don’t
>>    want to be beholden to Ben’s Copious Free Time(tm). (My kids are
>>    only feline, so I know he has less than me!)
>> 
>>    Thanks,
>>    -c
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