HOWTO: Installing mcollective on Mac OSX

install_mcollective

I had trouble fathoming out how to get mcollective client working on OSX, because there's no official support for it.
 
Here is what I did.
 
* Install XCode
* Install Auxilliary Tools for XCode from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/  - required
* Move the PackageMaker.app to /Applications
* sudo ln -s /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer /Developer
* cd /Developer/usr/bin
* sudo ln -s /Applications/PackageMaker.app/Contents/MacOS/PackageMaker packagemaker
* cd ${HOME}  # - or somewhere you can work
* git clone git://github.com/glarizza/luggage.git
* sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/luggage $(/bin/pwd)/luggage
* cd luggage/examples/mcollective
* make pkg
* open .
* Double click on the MCollective Installer pkg.
* If you're running rvm like me, then this installer will install the mcollective libs in the WRONG place. The lib location is set in the Makefile, but for me it was easier to copy the dir across directly: 
* cd /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
* tar -czf /tmp/mcollective.tgz mcollective*
* cd ~/.rvm/rubies/<whichever ruby version>/lib/ruby/site_ruby/<whichever ruby version>/
* tar -xzf /tmp/mcollective.tgz

* sudo touch /etc/mcollective/client.cfg # if it doesnt exist, create one - youll need to edit it.
* sudo chmod 644 /etc/mcollective/client.cfg # important to avoid errors about missing commands

Now you should be able to run mc-ping, mco etc.

@gtmtech did you ever get round to making a homebrew formula for this?

@gtmtech Could you please publish a Homebrew / brew cask formula for mcollective?