Unable to install any versions of Chef except the latest one on Amazon Linux 2023

[arundhansingh]

Describe the problem

I was able to install 17.10.122 version of chef with below installation script on Amazon linux 2.

curl --silent --show-error --retry 3 --location https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | bash -s -- -v "17.10.122"

However, we are getting 404 error when we try to install the same version on Amazon linux 2023. The only chef version gets installed on Amazon linux 2023 is the latest one (i.e 18.4.12)

Is there any reason why we cannot install any previous versions of chef on Amazon linux 2023?

Software Version

Chef version <= 18.4.2 OS - Amazon linux 2023

Replication Case

Launch an EC2 instance with Amazon linux 2023 AMI and try installing chef with below method specifying any version except the latest one.

curl --silent --show-error --retry 3 --location https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | bash -s -- -v "<Chef_Version>"

Stacktrace

``` root@ip-170-35-0-71 ~]# curl --silent --show-error --retry 3 --location https://omnitruck.chef.io/install.sh | bash -s -- -v "${CHEF_CLIENT_VERSION}" amazon 2023 x86_64 Getting information for chef stable 17.10.122 for amazon... downloading https://omnitruck.chef.io/stable/chef/metadata?v=17.10.122&p=amazon&pv=2023&m=x86_64 to file /tmp/install.sh.29100/metadata.txt trying wget... ERROR 404 Omnitruck artifact does not exist for version 17.10.122 on platform amazon

Either this means:

• We do not support amazon
• We do not have an artifact for 17.10.122

This is often the latter case due to running a prerelease or RC version of Chef or a gem version which was only pushed to rubygems and not omnitruck.

You may be able to set your knife[:bootstrap_version] to the most recent stable release of Chef to fix this problem (or the most recent stable major version number).

In order to test the version parameter, adventurous users may take the Metadata URL below and modify the '&v=' parameter until you successfully get a URL that does not 404 (e.g. via curl or wget). You should be able to use '&v=11' or '&v=12' successfully.

If you cannot fix this problem by setting the bootstrap_version, it probably means that amazon is not supported.

Metadata URL: https://omnitruck.chef.io/stable/chef/metadata?v=17.10.122&p=amazon&pv=2023&m=x86_64

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[Stromweld]

up until the latest version of chef-client 18.4.12 there wasn't any amazon linux 2023 support or builds for it. You can try downloading an rpm version for rhel platform and install it but you may have to fix any library issues that may be missing due to differences in RHEL and Amazon Linux.