chef server core 12.0 rc6 rpm thinks its newer than ga

[andrewelizondo]

Attempting to upgrade from chef server 12 rc6 to the ga release prompted the following.

$ rpm -Uvh chef-server-core-12.0.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
warning: chef-server-core-12.0.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 83ef826a: NOKEY
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package chef-server-core-12.0.0_rc.6-1.el6.x86_64 (which is newer than chef-server-core-12.0.0-1.el6.x86_64) is already installed

[sean-horn]

I have also seen this happen on CentOS 6.3. The resulting installed server seems to work ok, if you force it with

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage chef-server-core-12.0.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Here is the package info for both packages

[vagrant@localhost ~]$ rpm -qai -f chef-server-core-12.0.0_rc.6-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Name        : chef-server-core             Relocations: /
Version     : 12.0.0_rc.6                       Vendor: @ip-172-21-2-208.us-west-2.compute.internal
Release     : 1.el6                         Build Date: Tue 11 Nov 2014 12:26:08 AM UTC
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: ip-172-21-2-208.us-west-2.compute.internal
Group       : default                       Source RPM: chef-server-core-12.0.0_rc.6-1.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 1295049470                       License: unknown
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 11 Nov 2014 12:29:32 AM UTC, Key ID 2940aba983ef826a
Packager    : Chef Software, Inc.
URL         : http://www.getchef.com
Summary     : The full stack of chef-server
Description :
The full stack of chef-server

[vagrant@localhost ~]$ rpm -qai -f chef-server-core-12.0.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Name        : chef-server-core             Relocations: /
Version     : 12.0.0                            Vendor: @ip-172-21-2-166.us-west-2.compute.internal
Release     : 1.el6                         Build Date: Tue 25 Nov 2014 04:12:57 PM UTC
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: ip-172-21-2-166.us-west-2.compute.internal
Group       : default                       Source RPM: chef-server-core-12.0.0-1.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 1294877060                       License: unknown
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 25 Nov 2014 04:16:25 PM UTC, Key ID 2940aba983ef826a
Packager    : Chef Software, Inc.
URL         : http://www.getchef.com
Summary     : The full stack of chef-server
Description :
The full stack of chef-server

[sdelano]

@stevendanna @schisamo - I know we've gone a bit of the ways towards addressing this issue, but where do we currently stand?

• Will RC releases still show up as being newer than the GA releases?
• What about nightlies with datestamps?

[schisamo]

This was fixed with: chef/omnibus@0d5e3d1

From what I can tell CS 12.0.3+ should be G2G.

[stevendanna]

I'm going to close this out. Our packaging infrastructure has changed substantially from the time this was filed and we believe this issue to be resolved.