Omnibus fixes

[erikh]

This includes the commits from my previous pull request related to the UI and AMQP issues.

The fixes specific to this request:

• communicate to the user when the package can't be downloaded (right now it just bails silently)
• fix a spelling error
• provide a --no-test/-n option which does not run opscode pedant after installing erchef. This speeds up install time significantly if you're not interested in the test results.

[fnichol]

Looking good!

[erikh]

Thanks -- actually sorting an issue here with platform selection and chef
10, and another with SSL on chef 10 -- i'll probably have another PR in an
hour or two as a result of that, need to get my ducks in a row first.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Fletcher Nichol
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Looking good!

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[fnichol]

Sure thing, I'll hold off for the moment on a gem release then, may as well bundle it all up.

[erikh]

@fnichol

so the SSL bit is a bit involved and won't affect most consumers -- basically, knife uses Net::HTTP which by default attempts a SSLv23 (SSLv2 and SSLv3) negotiation -- the apache install on debian at least rejects SSLv2 at the openssl package level -- not configurable, which Net::HTTP doesn't gracefully handle. Net::HTTP allows you to change this, but this isn't exposed to knife users. I'm not sure there's a straightforward way to deal with this and I'd rather not hold up a bunch of bug fixes over it.

I'll get you a solution to this (I need it for chef-workflow), but it may not come in patch form, just a "hey, users, if you have this problem etc etc" thing.

I guess what I'm saying is you can probably kick out a release and I'd be really surprised if I came back two days later asking you to do it again.

As always, thanks for the awesome facilitation and project.

[erikh]

it's not pretty, but here's the fix for this issue, should you have any trouble with users, or want to add it to the documentation: https://gist.github.com/erikh/5239560

And yes, that is a monkeypatch to Net::HTTP in a knife.rb :)

[erikh]

relevant opscode ticket: https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4033

[erikh]

fwiw, while severely lacking in docs, and waiting on the release of these patches (the Gemfile works though), here's what I've been using to test all this stuff: https://github.com/chef-workflow/furnish-knife-server