Upgrading on old linux fails to detect correct version about chef_client_updater HOT 3 CLOSED

if you actually tell it to upgrade to "12.21.26" and its not supported then an error message and hard exit is entirely appropriate because you told it to do something very precisely that it cannot do.

Error message looks fairly not useful, but swallowing the error entirely would be incorrect.

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I told it to upgrade to 12, I'd assume it functions the same way - in terms of the logic selecting which version to install - as the manual command (the script, really):

curl -L https://chef.io/chef/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- -v 12

The cookbook failed to detect the correct latest version for the constraint and tried to install an unsupported one which correctly failed, but it selected the wrong version itself. The script correctly detected the latest version for the same constraint on the same system, and then succeeded in installing it.

As I said I did not expect it to succeed, nor that it is supported given that it's EOL, but as you said the error message does not help at all. I did missphrase myself though. It would read better as:

While ubuntu 12.02 is past EOL and therefore shouldn't expect support, it would be nice if this didn't break chef on it by exiting without any errors an explanation for the cause of the failure.

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Closing this issue based on above comments and since chef v12 and ubuntu 12.02 is EOL .

Thanks!!

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