Chef new upstream version 0.7.10

Upstream changelog lists several improvements:

* [CHEF-449] - use the basename of the target path as the default for the template, remote_file and remote_directory sources
* [CHEF-493] - Alias set_unless with "default" in attributes.rb
* [CHEF-509] - add man pages, initscripts and other goods from packaging efforts
* [CHEF-515] - chef-server needs to be compatible with couchdb 0.10.0
* [CHEF-524] - Chef::Platform.find_provider_for_node is always used to get an instance of the provider (code duplication)

The Karmic release is in FeatureFreeze right now (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze), so this update would need a FeatureFreezeException. Please turn this bug into one if you think this update meets the criteria for late inclusion. If the exception is granted, please resubscribe the sponsors then.

The following bugs are also fixed in this release:

CHEF-492 FIXED Attributes aren't quite hash enough to fool variables() method in templates
CHEF-494 FIXED Multiple roles' default_attributes are not merged correctly on the node
CHEF-500 FIXED server.rb log_location truncation take two

Additionally, CHEF-492 requires new upstream version 1.0.12 for libmixlib-config, launchpad bug # 420674

Switching back to 'new' per FFE process.

This looks reasonable and like a server oriented package, so I'll approve as server team delegate. Go ahead and seek sponsorship and upload as soon as you can.

Hi,

Sorry about that, but I've not been able to find the 0.7.10 tarball on the website, and uscan fails with :
  http://githubredir.debian.net/github/opscode/chef failed: 500 Internal Server Error
-- Scan finished

Can you check that?

Thanks,
Fabrice

Fabrice, GitHub's tags were broken after their datacenter migration this past weekend, and the Chef project was still cached w/ the broken page. Please try again.

(karmic)root@sbuild1test:/home/jtimberman/packages/chef-0.7.10# uscan --report --verbose
-- Scanning for watchfiles in .
-- Found watchfile in ./debian
-- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
   http://githubredir.debian.net/github/opscode/chef /(.*).tar.gz
-- Found the following matching hrefs:
     /github/opscode/chef/0.5.2.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.5.4.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.5.6.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.6.0.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.6.2.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.7.0.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.7.10.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.7.2.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.7.4.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.7.6.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/0.7.8.tar.gz
     /github/opscode/chef/chef-server-....tar.gz
Newest version on remote site is chef-server-..., local version is 0.7.10
 => Newer version available from
    http://githubredir.debian.net/github/opscode/chef/chef-server-....tar.gz
-- Scan finished

this is working now.
Thanks!

Nope: usan works, but it's not possible to download the tarball, even through the webpage (500 read timeout).
Anyway, the watch file is not correct, as it's getting chef-server as the latest version.
This line will fix this issue:
http://githubredir.debian.net/github/opscode/chef /([0..9].*).tar.gz

Anyway, Once I'll be able to download the package, I'll have a look at it...

Thanks,
Fabrice

Looks like github's download is having problems. I posted a tarball for the 0.7.10 release on our apt repo server. The following watch file line should work:

http://apt.opscode.com/tarballs/chef-(.*).tar.gz

For example:

-- Scanning for watchfiles in .
-- Found watchfile in ./debian
-- In debian/watch, processing watchfile line:
   http://apt.opscode.com/tarballs/chef-(.*).tar.gz
-- Found the following matching hrefs:
     chef-0.7.10.tar.gz
Newest version on remote site is 0.7.10, local version is 0.7.8
 => Newer version available from
    http://apt.opscode.com/tarballs/chef-0.7.10.tar.gz
-- Downloading updated package chef-0.7.10.tar.gz
-- Successfully downloaded updated package chef-0.7.10.tar.gz
    and symlinked chef_0.7.10.orig.tar.gz to it
-- Scan finished

GitHub reported that the downloads are working again. I tested using the githubredir watch line:

http://githubredir.debian.net/github/opscode/chef /([0..9].*).tar.gz

Results:

 => Newer version available from
    http://githubredir.debian.net/github/opscode/chef/0.7.10.tar.gz
-- Downloading updated package 0.7.10.tar.gz
-- Successfully downloaded updated package 0.7.10.tar.gz
    and symlinked chef_0.7.10.orig.tar.gz to it
-- Scan finished

Uploaded.
Thanks for your contribution!

Manually closing the bug report (missing lp: #424576 in the changelog)