Getting augeas type to working on OS X

[Amos Shapira]

Hello,

I'm working on automating of OS X vmware build using Puppet.

I use Packer to build the base image (based on excellent work done in https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates) and take the opportunity to pre-install Puppet, Homebrew and gems used by Puppet itself like hiera, hiera-eyaml, and augeas.

The trouble is that although 'augeas' gets installed by Homebrew just fine, the 'ruby-augeas' gem fails with an error "extconf.rb:27:in `<main>': augeas-devel not installed (RuntimeError)":

# gem install --verbose --no-ri --no-rdoc ruby-augeas

HEAD https://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz

302 Moved Temporarily

HEAD https://rubygems.global.ssl.fastly.net/latest_specs.4.8.gz

304 Not Modified

GET https://rubygems.org/quick/Marshal.4.8/ruby-augeas-0.5.0.gemspec.rz

302 Moved Temporarily

GET https://rubygems.global.ssl.fastly.net/quick/Marshal.4.8/ruby-augeas-0.5.0.gemspec.rz

200 OK

Installing gem ruby-augeas-0.5.0

Downloading gem ruby-augeas-0.5.0.gem

GET https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0.gem

302 Moved Temporarily

GET https://rubygems.global.ssl.fastly.net/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0.gem

Fetching: ruby-augeas-0.5.0.gem (100%)

200 OK

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/Rakefile

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/COPYING

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/README.rdoc

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/NEWS

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/_augeas.c

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/_augeas.h

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/lib/augeas.rb

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/extconf.rb

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/tests/root/etc/group

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/tests/root/etc/hosts

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/tests/root/etc/inittab

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/tests/root/etc/ssh/sshd_config

/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/tests/tc_augeas.rb

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb

*** extconf.rb failed ***

Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary

libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more details.  You may

need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:

--with-opt-dir

--without-opt-dir

--with-opt-include

--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include

--with-opt-lib

--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib

--with-make-prog

--without-make-prog

--srcdir=.

--curdir

--ruby=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby

--with-augeas-config

--without-augeas-config

--with-pkg-config

--without-pkg-config

extconf.rb:27:in `<main>': augeas-devel not installed (RuntimeError)

ERROR:  Error installing ruby-augeas:

ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    Building has failed. See above output for more information on the failure.

Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0 for inspection.

Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/ruby-augeas-0.5.0/ext/augeas/gem_make.out

As much as I researched, I couldn't find any information about this error for OSX, only a few mentions about old Ubuntu (10.04) and RedHat. Does anyone know how to make it work?

Thanks.

[Amos Shapira]

More updates found just after posting this (why do all the useful links appear only after posting questions, despite digging for them for hours before asking??):

"Known Bugs" lists that ruby-augeas is broken (and another link mentions that it haven't been touched since 2013 and might be abandoned):

https://github.com/berndmweber/open-source-puppet-master/blob/master/modules/puppet/README.md

[David Lutterkort]

Hi Amos,

ruby-augeas is certainly not abandoned, though there has been little activity on it. I am not sure what the clone at https://github.com/uib/ruby-augeas - this is the first time I've seen it. The official upstream of ruby-augeas is https://github.com/hercules-team/ruby-augeas; that's not helping you much, since it doesn't have support for building on OSX. I'll see if I can find somebody who'd like to open a PR there for OSX build support.

As a quick fix, you could install the OSX puppet-agent package - that has ruby-augeas (and all the other goodies that make up puppet-agent) in it.

David

[Amos Shapira]

Thanks.

Since running Puppet is the ultimate goal, I'll try to go that way. They even provide command-line installation instructions.

[Amos Shapira]

Correction - Puppet Agent is version 4.x of Puppet, which we haven't migrated to, so I can't use that package yet.

[David Lutterkort]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

Correction - Puppet Agent is version 4.x of Puppet, which we haven't migrated to, so I can't use that package yet

That's a bummer ;)

I've put up a pull request - could you try that out and let me know if that actually makes ruby-augeas build for you ?

thanks,

David

[Amos Shapira]

Thanks. I'm out of office until Friday, then I'll test that.