Voxer using FreeBSD, BSDNow.tv interview

[Nikolai Lifanov]

On 10/20/14 13:36, Rainer Duffner wrote:
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>> Am 20.10.2014 um 10:19 schrieb David Chisnall <theraven at FreeBSD.org>:
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>> I presume that most of the relevant differences are for users / developers and not sysadmins?  It's worth noting that GNU coreutils, tar, bash, and a load of other things are in the ports repository.  I wonder if it's worth having a gnu-userland metaport, perhaps with something like the Solaris approach of sticking them all in a different tree so that you can just add that to the start of your PATH and have all of the GNU tools work by default.  
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> They use chef.
> The chef omnibus installer assumes there is a /bin/bash. Even the FreeBSD version of it. Well, it least it did the last time I looked. Maybe this got fixed in the meantime.
> Which means that to „bootstrap“ a node, you’ve first got to install pkg on it, install bash, symlink it to /bin/bash and then bootstrap the node.
> Which kind of runs against the concept of doing everything via chef.
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Hi from sysutils/ansible maintainer!

The ansible port REINPLACE_CMDs away hardcoded paths at build time. This
way managing FreeBSD "just works". Maybe chef can benefit from the same
approach?

- Nikolai Lifanov