# Call for testing: Ubuntu / Debian packages for Chef 0.8

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-debian-packages-for-chef-0-8/1414>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [April 14, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-debian-packages-for-chef-0-8/1414 "2010-04-14T16:15:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Timberman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/joshua_timberman/32/424_2.png) [@Joshua\_Timberman](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Joshua_Timberman)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-debian-packages-for-chef-0-8/1414/1 "2010-04-14T16:15:37Z")

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Ohai, Chefs!

We are planning to release the Chef 0.8.x Debian/Ubuntu packages on  
the Opscode APT repository ([apt.opscode.com](http://apt.opscode.com)) “Real Soon Now”. The  
current version 0.8.10, but subject to change.

This may be a breaking change for people using the repository for Chef  
version 0.7.16 due to authentication changes in 0.8.x[0](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Breaking+Changes+from+0.7.x+to+0.8.x).

The 0.8 packages are currently in a Launchpad PPA, for testing on  
Ubuntu Lucid and Karmic, to keep them separate from our official APT  
repo. We would like upgrading to be as painless as possible, so we are  
soliciting feedback for new installations or upgrades with these  
packages.

[https://launchpad.net/~jtimberman/+archive/opschef/+packages](https://launchpad.net/~jtimberman/+archive/opschef/+packages)

Clients:

```
 sudo apt-get install chef

```

Server:

```
 sudo apt-get install chef chef-server

```

The package chef-server-webui provides the WebUI, and is optional in  
0.8. You’ll need to specify it to install as well if you want to use it.

There are a lot of improvements to the packaging from v0.7.16. Please  
see the complete list of the changes in the packaging from earlier  
versions in the Debian changelog:

[http://github.com/opscode/opscode-packages/raw/master/debian/chef/debian/changelog](http://github.com/opscode/opscode-packages/raw/master/debian/chef/debian/changelog)

We’re looking for issues with the packaging itself - packaging  
specific configuration or the init/postinst scripts, dependency  
management, etc. Note that the various Chef daemons are configured to  
log in /var/log/chef.

Thanks!

* * *

Opscode, Inc  
Joshua Timberman, Senior Solutions Engineer  
C: 720.334.RUBY E: [joshua@opscode.com](mailto:joshua@opscode.com)

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**Author:** ![Joel\_Merrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/joel_merrick/32/893_2.png) [@Joel\_Merrick](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Joel_Merrick)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-debian-packages-for-chef-0-8/1414/2 "2010-04-14T17:01:12Z")

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Joshua Timberman [joshua@opscode.com](mailto:joshua@opscode.com) wrote:

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> Ohai, Chefs!
> 
> We are planning to release the Chef 0.8.x Debian/Ubuntu packages on the  
> Opscode APT repository ([apt.opscode.com](http://apt.opscode.com)) "Real Soon Now". The current  
> version 0.8.10, but subject to change.

FANTASTIC!!!

Many thanks, will be testing tomorrow.

Is there any specific testing framework you would like me to adhere  
too? Or is it just a free for all to see what breaks? 🙂

Joel

--  
$ echo "kpfmAdpoofdufevq/dp/vl" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'

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**Author:** ![Lee\_Azzarello](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/lee_azzarello/32/888_2.png) [@Lee\_Azzarello](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Lee_Azzarello)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-debian-packages-for-chef-0-8/1414/3 "2010-04-14T17:15:21Z")

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I'll test the Debian packages. Thanks for making them!

-lee

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Joel Merrick [joel.merrick@gmail.com](mailto:joel.merrick@gmail.com) wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Joshua Timberman [joshua@opscode.com](mailto:joshua@opscode.com) wrote:
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> > Ohai, Chefs!
> > 
> > We are planning to release the Chef 0.8.x Debian/Ubuntu packages on the  
> > Opscode APT repository ([apt.opscode.com](http://apt.opscode.com)) "Real Soon Now". The current  
> > version 0.8.10, but subject to change.
> 
> FANTASTIC!!!
> 
> Many thanks, will be testing tomorrow.
> 
> Is there any specific testing framework you would like me to adhere  
> too? Or is it just a free for all to see what breaks? 🙂
> 
> Joel
> 
> --  
> $ echo "kpfmAdpoofdufevq/dp/vl" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge'

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Lee Azzarello  
[drop.io](http://drop.io) staff hacker

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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Miller](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/joshua_miller/32/212_2.png) [@Joshua\_Miller](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Joshua_Miller)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-debian-packages-for-chef-0-8/1414/4 "2010-04-14T20:03:46Z")

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Client notes:

Thought I would throw a few notes out there for everyone, as I have been using timbermans ppa for a few weeks now on 8.x, hope this helps someone out.

# I used the debconf-utils package for the seed file, so you might need to apt-get that if you dont have it already

# python-software-properties is the easiest way to use the ppa

apt-get install python-software-properties debconf-utils

# I was scripting this on a bunch of servers so I needed to seed the servers in

# update [mychefserver.com](http://mychefserver.com) with your actually chef server

echo \< chef.seed

# URL of Chef Server (e.g., [http://chef.example.com:4000](http://chef.example.com:4000)):

chef chef/chef\_server\_url string [http://mychefserver.com:4000](http://mychefserver.com:4000)  
EOF

sudo debconf-set-selections \< chef.seed

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jtimberman/opschef

# remove old chef client

sudo apt-get purge chef

# update to pickup new chef from ppa

sudo apt-get update

# install chef

sudo apt-get install chef

# copy your validation.pem from chef server to /etc/chef

# I was unable to get this to work

# so I used knife on the chef server

knife client create \<server\_fqdn\> -f \<server\_fqdn\>.pem

# I put this on a common nfs share to all my servers \<example user home 🙂 \>

# copy it to /etc/chef/client.pem on your system.

# make sure it all works

sudo chef-client

#use knife or ui to edit your clients.

On Apr 14, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Joshua Timberman wrote:

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> Ohai, Chefs!
> 
> We are planning to release the Chef 0.8.x Debian/Ubuntu packages on the Opscode APT repository ([apt.opscode.com](http://apt.opscode.com)) "Real Soon Now". The current version 0.8.10, but subject to change.
> 
> This may be a breaking change for people using the repository for Chef version 0.7.16 due to authentication changes in 0.8.x[0](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Breaking+Changes+from+0.7.x+to+0.8.x).
> 
> The 0.8 packages are currently in a Launchpad PPA, for testing on Ubuntu Lucid and Karmic, to keep them separate from our official APT repo. We would like upgrading to be as painless as possible, so we are soliciting feedback for new installations or upgrades with these packages.
> 
> [https://launchpad.net/~jtimberman/+archive/opschef/+packages](https://launchpad.net/~jtimberman/+archive/opschef/+packages)
> 
> Clients:
> 
> sudo apt-get install chef
> 
> Server:
> 
> sudo apt-get install chef chef-server
> 
> The package chef-server-webui provides the WebUI, and is optional in 0.8. You'll need to specify it to install as well if you want to use it.
> 
> There are a lot of improvements to the packaging from v0.7.16. Please see the complete list of the changes in the packaging from earlier versions in the Debian changelog:
> 
> [http://github.com/opscode/opscode-packages/raw/master/debian/chef/debian/changelog](http://github.com/opscode/opscode-packages/raw/master/debian/chef/debian/changelog)
> 
> We're looking for issues with the packaging itself - packaging specific configuration or the init/postinst scripts, dependency management, etc. Note that the various Chef daemons are configured to log in /var/log/chef.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> * * *
> 
> Opscode, Inc  
> Joshua Timberman, Senior Solutions Engineer  
> C: 720.334.RUBY E: [joshua@opscode.com](mailto:joshua@opscode.com)
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**Author:** ![Joshua\_Timberman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/joshua_timberman/32/424_2.png) [@Joshua\_Timberman](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Joshua_Timberman)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-debian-packages-for-chef-0-8/1414/5 "2010-04-14T22:15:15Z")

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On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Joel Merrick wrote:

> Is there any specific testing framework you would like me to adhere  
> too? Or is it just a free for all to see what breaks? 🙂

I don't have any specific framework, just a general workflow.

- Install the packages.
- Verify everything starts up, service names:  
chef-client  
chef-server  
chef-solr  
chef-solr-indexer  
chef-server-webui (if installed)  
rabbitmq-server  
couchdb
- Check that the client was able to register using the validation.pem
- Generate a knife client config
- Interact with the API via knife (upload cookbooks, roles, add to a  
node run list, verify knife search works, etc)
- Log into the webui if its installed
- Anything else you can think of :-).

Note that on package installation for some of the init scripts, they  
say the service failed to start when it actually didn't. The scripts  
need a bit of tweaking to properly detect the PID vs the command-line  
of the running process, because the names change on startup.

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Opscode, Inc  
Joshua Timberman, Senior Solutions Engineer  
C: 720.334.RUBY E: [joshua@opscode.com](mailto:joshua@opscode.com)

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_McLellan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/bryan_mclellan/32/81_2.png) [@Bryan\_McLellan](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Bryan_McLellan)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/call-for-testing-ubuntu-debian-packages-for-chef-0-8/1414/6 "2010-04-14T22:26:03Z")

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Joshua Miller [jassinpain@gmail.com](mailto:jassinpain@gmail.com) wrote:

> apt-get install python-software-properties debconf-utils

I think you only need debconf-utils if you're playing with  
'debconf-get-selections' to test debconf.

> echo \< chef.seed
> 
> # URL of Chef Server (e.g., [http://chef.example.com:4000](http://chef.example.com:4000)):
> 
> chef chef/chef\_server\_url string [http://mychefserver.com:4000](http://mychefserver.com:4000)  
> EOF
> 
> sudo debconf-set-selections \< chef.seed

FWIW, you can omit the temporary file:

echo "chef chef/chef\_server\_url string  
[http://mychefserver.com:4000](http://mychefserver.com:4000)" | debconf-set-selections

Bryan