On 12/21/2012 11:45 AM, John Moser wrote: > > Packages and source tarballs appear available from this location: > > http://apt.opscode.com/pool/main/ > > Potentially these are appropriate for multiverse, if the Chef developers > are willing to submit them. Some packages in Debian have DFSG > designation, so I assume some modifications are necessary for inclusion > of Chef in Universe or Main. > > I am simply at a loss as to why some packages have been brought over, > yet others have not. Perhaps the client is simply more "open" and thus > easier to import by policy, and so the bits needed to interact with a > server are brought in functionally but the bits needed to run a server > are left out. That would at least be a valuable effort and explain the > current state of things. But that is simply speculation on my part.
Chef has never been terribly interested in supporting distro packaging. Last I checked, their custom apt repository heavily modifies some core packages (outside the chef package namespace) in ways that could never be accepted into Debian/Ubuntu. They treat it as an "appliance", not as independent packages. I asked OpsCode about this a few months ago when I was doing a Chef/Puppet assessment for a client, and they didn't seem to have any interest in normalizing their packages into something distributable. Allison -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
