All our chef scripts were written with ubuntu 10.04 in mind and we had not
correctly separated the os dependencies from the application deployment.
Then we had to deploy to Centos :)

So our chef scripts broke in all sorts of interesting ways. I don't ascribe
this to a problem with chef when it could so easily be our scripts being
badly written so don't worry about chef.

However we need to get runit working on Centos regardless so we have hacked
up some scripts to do this.

Runit installs fine, or at least without error but things are not working
out.

For instance there is no /etc/init.d/runsvdir or similar. The truth be told
there isn't one on Ubuntu either but some how Ubuntu is managing to start
up "runsvdir -P /etc/service" without any problem. So one question would be
how to get this to happen on Centos 5.8?