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author | Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> | 2017-11-30 15:54:14 -0800 |
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committer | Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> | 2017-11-30 15:54:14 -0800 |
commit | 1bd8d0064d0633f2dde384f8d82828469739f9eb (patch) | |
tree | cc760b1e750806b7be9b418318f9baa439452f80 /lib/chef/version | |
parent | 7c5f4dee428b0d369e67fc31b4753ff8039d2c10 (diff) | |
download | chef-1bd8d0064d0633f2dde384f8d82828469739f9eb.tar.gz |
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Signed-off-by: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
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-rw-r--r-- | lib/chef/version/platform.rb | 18 |
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diff --git a/lib/chef/version/platform.rb b/lib/chef/version/platform.rb index 07b1a17b11..6d8f4192fe 100644 --- a/lib/chef/version/platform.rb +++ b/lib/chef/version/platform.rb @@ -16,6 +16,24 @@ require "chef/version_class" +# NOTE: this is fairly badly broken for its purpose and should not be used +# unless it gets fixed. + +# this strictly wants x, x.y, or x.y.z version constraints in the target and +# will fail hard if it does not match. the semantics that we need here is that +# it must always do the best job that it can do and consume as much of the +# offered version as it can. since we accept arbitrarily parsed strings into +# node[:platform_version] out of dozens or potentially hundreds of operating +# systems this parsing code needs to be fixed to never raise. the Gem::Version +# class is a better model, and in fact it might be a substantially better approach +# to base this class on Gem::Version and then do pre-mangling of things like windows +# version strings via e.g. `.gsub(/R/, '.')`. the raising behavior of this parser +# however, breaks the ProviderResolver in a not just buggy but a "completely unfit +# for purpose" way. +# +# TL;DR: MUST follow the second part of "Be conservative in what you send, +# be liberal in what you accept" +# class Chef class Version class Platform < Chef::Version |