Private chocolatey_package resource

chef-dev
#1

Hi people,

I would like to have cookbooks installing packages on my node using a private repo located on the workstation for exemple, I don’t want to have my nodes searching for the packages on the internet but from a private chocolatey repo for exemple. Do you know how i could do this ?

thanks!

#2

You can mirror the chocolatey repo locally using a simple web server, or an artifact repository that supports nuget (nexus, artifactory).

Here are instructions on chocolatey’s wiki.

Then change the chocolatey_package ‘source’ attribute

chocolatey_package 'name' do
  source                     http://example.com
  action                     :install
end
#3

Hi @spuder

Thanks for your help , i finally used nexus to mirror my repo but i have two problems :
i need to authenticate with admin/admin123 in order to reach the repo. So how can we pass credentials in the chocolatey_package ressource?
my source is : localhost:8081/repository/ which is located on my workstation so i need to change this url to access server.
Do you know how can we do that from nexus?

Thanks!

#4

You can try using chocolatey_package the way that the chocolatey resource worked

chocolatey "some_private_secure_package" do
  source "https://some.proget/feed"
  options ({'u' => 'username', 'p' => 'password'})
end

Sorry I don’t have a private repository set up to validate this. That snippet is taken from the chocolatey-cookbook repository

#5

Yes you want to use the options property to pass along the user and password switches. The chocolatey_package handles the options property a bit differently than the chocolatey cookbook’s chocolatey LWRP. Instead of a hash you want to pass a string. So it would look like:

chocolatey_package "some_private_secure_package" do
  source "https://some.proget/feed"
  options '-u=username -p=password'
end
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#6

Hi,

Thanks for your answers that helped me a lot! i tested the method to download and install soapui from a private nexus repo

that’s the recipe i used:
include_recipe ‘chocolatey’

chocolatey_package ‘soapui’ do
source "http://servername:8081/repository/nuget.org-proxy/"
options '-u=admin -p=admin123’
version "v5.2.1"
end

i had this error though:

  • chocolatey_package[soapui] action install[2016-07-19T15:49:00+02:00] INFO: P
    rocessing chocolatey_package[soapui] action install (soapui::default line 10)

    • No version specified, and no candidate version available for soapuie[0m
      ============================================================================
      ====
      Error executing action install on resource ‘chocolatey_package[soapui]’
      ============================================================================
      ====

    Chef::Exceptions::Package

    No version specified, and no candidate version available for soapui

    Resource Declaration:

    In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/soapui/recipes/default.rb

    10: chocolatey_package ‘soapui’ do
    11: source "http://servername:8081/repository/nuget.org-
    proxy/"
    12: options '-u=admin -p=admin123’
    13: version "v5.2.1"
    14: end
    15:

    Compiled Resource:

    Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/soapui/recipes/default.rb:10:in `from_

file’

chocolatey_package("soapui") do
  package_name ["soapui"]
  action [:install]
  retries 0
  retry_delay 2
  default_guard_interpreter :default
  declared_type :chocolatey_package
  cookbook_name "soapui"
  recipe_name "default"
  source "http://servername:8081/repository/nuget.org-proxy

/"
options "-u=admin -p=admin123"
version [“v5.2.1”]
end

Platform:
---------
i386-mingw32

[2016-07-19T15:49:02+02:00] INFO: Running queued delayed notifications before re
-raising exception
e[0m
Running handlers:
[2016-07-19T15:49:02+02:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
Running handlers complete
[2016-07-19T15:49:02+02:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
Chef Client failed. 0 resources updated in 18 seconds
[2016-07-19T15:49:02+02:00] INFO: Sending resource update report (run-id: 985740
81-fc47-4f92-a17e-79a86590049e)
[2016-07-19T15:49:02+02:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to c:/chef/cache/chef-stack
trace.out
[2016-07-19T15:49:02+02:00] FATAL: Please provide the contents of the stacktrace
.out file if you file a bug report
[2016-07-19T15:49:02+02:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::package: chocolatey_package
[soapui] (soapui::default line 10) had an error: Chef::Exceptions::package: No v
ersion specified, and no candidate version available for soapui

Do you get the error? chocolatey seemes to recognize soapui though…

#7

This means it could not find version v5.2.1. This makes sense since that format is not a legal nuget package version. Try 5.2.1 without the v.

#8

okay! great i’ll try this!

Thanks a lot!