Homebrew provider

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  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: None
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: None
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Description

We should support homebrew as a provider for Mac OS X, and it should be the default package provider.

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Daniel DeLeo added a comment -

This didn't make it for 0.9.0, bumping the fix version.

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Daniel DeLeo added a comment - This didn't make it for 0.9.0, bumping the fix version.
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Daniel DeLeo added a comment -

bulk reassigning to 0.9.4

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Daniel DeLeo added a comment - bulk reassigning to 0.9.4
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Sahil R Cooner added a comment -

have a working implementation for this. Just going to iron out a bug or two , and then commit to git@github.com:coondog0630/chef.git, branch CHEF-1250

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Sahil R Cooner added a comment - have a working implementation for this. Just going to iron out a bug or two , and then commit to git@github.com:coondog0630/chef.git, branch CHEF-1250
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Sahil R Cooner added a comment -

http://github.com/coondog0630/chef/tree/CHEF-1250

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Sahil R Cooner added a comment - http://github.com/coondog0630/chef/tree/CHEF-1250
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Ringo De Smet added a comment -

I don't have a problem with support for homebrew, but I'm against having this as the default provider on my Mac.

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Ringo De Smet added a comment - I don't have a problem with support for homebrew, but I'm against having this as the default provider on my Mac.
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Daniel DeLeo added a comment -

bulk updating fix versions to next release

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Daniel DeLeo added a comment - bulk updating fix versions to next release
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Seth Falcon added a comment -

The preferred Homebrew setup has /usr/local owned by the user and brew commands are run as the user, not root. I think the Homebrew provider should issue brew commands matching the user's installation. One way to achieve this is to have the Homebrew resource/provider check to see the ownership of /usr/local/bin/brew and then use that user and that user's main group for executing brew commands.

Another tricky bit with Homebrew is determining which version of a package is installed and active. Users can use "brew switch" to link up different versions. But brew info doesn't indicate which version is linked.

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Seth Falcon added a comment - The preferred Homebrew setup has /usr/local owned by the user and brew commands are run as the user, not root. I think the Homebrew provider should issue brew commands matching the user's installation. One way to achieve this is to have the Homebrew resource/provider check to see the ownership of /usr/local/bin/brew and then use that user and that user's main group for executing brew commands. Another tricky bit with Homebrew is determining which version of a package is installed and active. Users can use "brew switch" to link up different versions. But brew info doesn't indicate which version is linked.
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Sahil R Cooner added a comment -

That is a valid point I'll look into adding that into the ticket

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Sahil R Cooner added a comment - That is a valid point I'll look into adding that into the ticket
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Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten added a comment -

This seems pretty well resolved by the homebrew cookbook: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/homebrew

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Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten added a comment - This seems pretty well resolved by the homebrew cookbook: http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/homebrew
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Sahil R Cooner added a comment -

the extended LWRP functionality of chef in more recent versions has allowed the homebrew cookbook to exist instead. nice.

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Sahil R Cooner added a comment - the extended LWRP functionality of chef in more recent versions has allowed the homebrew cookbook to exist instead. nice.

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  • Assignee:
    Sahil R Cooner
    Reporter:
    Adam Jacob
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