You’ve probably figured out by now that I’m completely insane. I typically don’t let this leak out and affect other people, but it seems that a chunk of my home lab has found its way onto the Internet. As a result, now I have a yum repo.
It’s just for RHEL6 and derivatives right now, and only on x86_64 (is anyone still using i386?), but I’ll probably start cross-compiling for CentOS 5 if anyone has a need.
Right now, the holyhandgrenade repo contains Ruby Enterprise Edition (existing packages on the Internet don’t build for RHEL6) and all Rubygem prerequisites for Chef built as RPM against Ruby Enterprise Edition. RBEL is still needed for the things this repo doesn’t contain (CouchDB, RabbitMQ, etc.).
As a bonus, if you install Chef from this repo, it will actually work. As of this writing, that’s not the case with RBEL. Hooray!
You can install the repo with:
rpm -Uvh http://repo.holyhandgrenade.org/rhel/stable/6/x86_64/holyhandgrenade-release-1.0-2.el6.hhg.noarch.rpm
I was in a rush to get this live, so there’s no GPG signing of packages yet. That will happen soon, I promise.
I’ve also created separate GitHub projects for each package. You can view my GitHub page here.
Now I can start work on that Chef tutorial.