diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'RELEASE_NOTES.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | RELEASE_NOTES.md | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 78daac899e..a1d4bfad14 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -1,2 +1,24 @@ # Chef Client Release Notes 12.5.0: * OSX 10.11 support (support for SIP and service changes) + +## Support for `/usr/bin/yum-deprecated` in the yum provider + +In Fedora 22 yum has been deprecated in favor of DNF. Unfortunately, while DNF tries to be backwards +compatible with yum, the yum provider in Chef is not compatible with DNF. Until a proper `dnf_package` +resource and associated provider is written and merged into core, 12.5.0 has been patched so that the +`yum_package` resource takes a property named `yum_binary` which can be set to point at the yum binary +to run for all its commands. The `yum_binary` will also default to `yum-deprecated` if the +`/usr/bin/yum-deprecated` command is found on the system. This means that Fedora 22 users can run +something like this early in their chef-client run: + +```ruby +if File.exist?("/usr/bin/dnf") + execute "dnf install -y yum" do + not_if { File.exist?("/usr/bin/yum-deprecated") } + end +end +``` + +After which the yum-deprecated binary will exist, and the yum provider will find it and should operate +normally and successfully. + |