Hi Andrew, you should be able to control that via "install" config option, e.g.:
config.vm.provision "chef_solo" do |chef| chef.install = false end See here: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/blob/master/plugins/provisioners/chef/config/base.rb#L14-23 HTH, Torben On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Andrew Goktepe <andrewgokt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know if there is a way to configure the Chef Solo provisioner so > that it skips the Chef omnibus installer? > I am using vagrant to provision an ARM system running Debian Jessie (using > the vagrant-managed-servers plugin) and the Chef omnibus installer is > failing because that is not a supported platform. Full error message is at > the bottom of this post. > > I am able to install Chef on the ARM system using the gem, so I just need > the provisioner to skip the installer and use the already-installed chef > client instead. > > Thanks, > Andrew > > p.s. Here is the output from "vagrant provision": > > The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. > Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed! > > curl -sL https://www.chef.io/chef/install.sh | sudo bash > > Stdout from the command: > > Downloading Chef for debian... > downloading > https://www.chef.io/chef/metadata?v=&prerelease=false&nightlies=false&p=debian&pv=8.0&m=armv7l > to file /tmp/install.sh.10509/metadata.txt > trying wget... > ERROR 404 > Omnitruck artifact does not exist for version on platform debian > > Either this means: > - We do not support debian > - We do not have an artifact for > > This is often the latter case due to running a prerelease or RC version of > chef > or a gem version which was only pushed to rubygems and not omnitruck. > > You may be able to set your knife[:bootstrap_version] to the most recent > stable > release of Chef to fix this problem (or the most recent stable major version > number). > > In order to test the version parameter, adventurous users may take the > Metadata URL > below and modify the '&v=<number>' parameter until you successfully get a > URL that > does not 404 (e.g. via curl or wget). You should be able to use '&v=11' or > '&v=12' > succesfully. > > If you cannot fix this problem by setting the bootstrap_version, it probably > means > that debian is not supported. > > Metadata URL: > https://www.chef.io/chef/metadata?v=&prerelease=false&nightlies=false&p=debian&pv=8.0&m=armv7l > > > Stderr from the command: > > stdin: is not a tty > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vagrant-up+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
