Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:33:20 -0400 From: Nikolai Lifanov <lifanov@mail.lifanov.com> To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Voxer using FreeBSD, BSDNow.tv interview Message-ID: <54455570.8070808@mail.lifanov.com> In-Reply-To: <1FB509B4-25C3-42D7-9F66-8685DEC712D2@ultra-secure.de> References: <CAG=rPVfYQCBVRUcdPORAKGz_851YSTos=W7y0Sb2_VzO9cJ_oQ@mail.gmail.com> <31A8D963-F8EF-4D68-9586-39EE8A7C7C5A@FreeBSD.org> <1FB509B4-25C3-42D7-9F66-8685DEC712D2@ultra-secure.de>
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On 10/20/14 13:36, Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> Am 20.10.2014 um 10:19 schrieb David Chisnall <theraven@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
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