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The yum cookbook moved to a syntax that is not compatible with 1.8 ruby. I've locked the version so it keeps working. Since the yum cookbook is by Opscode (creator of chef), and a lot of the other cookbooks are as well, i think there will come a time in the near future that keeping ML compatibility will become too much trouble.

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@roderik but Mac 10.8 system ruby is still on 1.8, how do get around this?

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I fixed this this weekend. I fixed the yum cookbook to an older version (it's just an unused dependency) and it works now on ML and Mavericks.

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Rather than globally pinning the cookbook version to the last known 10.8-compatible version, what do you think of having kitchenplan (or possibly the go script?) pick a Cheffile based on either platform_family or platform + version?

It may seem like a lot of additional work for supporting ML, but ... I'm thinking it would be nice to add Windows support, and that might involve adding in a bunch of cookbooks that would be, at best, irrelevant on another platform. Being able to switch Cheffiles based on platform might alleviate that.

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