[davexunit]

>The Chef Server stack is somewhat complicated, though with an omnibus install you will rarely have to interact with it at that level.

Omnibus is the worst thing to happen to packaging. It bundles its own copy of everything.

Is anyone that's not an Opscode employee capable of building Chef Server from source? I tried and failed. Software that can't reasonably be built from source is proprietary in practice. I want to run Chef Server on Debian but I can't because its seemingly impossible to build, so I can only use a platform that Opscode provides a pre-built binary for. It's a terrible situation to be in.