windows_package source problems in windows 2008 and not in 2012

Chef Infra (archive)
1

Hello, I’m creating some recipes to install packages automatically and
I’m receiving a very odd behaviour.

In this example i have this simple recipe:

windows_package ‘7-Zip’ do
source "http://chefserver.net:8080/installers/7z922-x64.msi"
action :install
end

When chef-client is executed in the source path of the msi is appended c:…
source “C:\http:\chefserver.net:8080\installers\7z922-x64.msi”

And this only happens in windows server 2008R2 in Server 2012 works fine…

And in the chef-client i get this…

Chef::Exceptions::Package

msi_open_package: unexpected status 1619: This installation package
could not be opened. Verify that the package exists
and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to
verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.

Resource Declaration:

In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/test/recipes/7zip.rb

10: windows_package ‘7-Zip’ do
11: source 'http://chefserver.net:8080/installers/7z922-x64.msi’
12: action :install
13: end

Compiled Resource:

Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/test/recipes/7zip.rb:10:in `from_file’

windows_package(“7-Zip”) do
provider Chef::Provider::package::Windows
action [:install]
retries 0
retry_delay 2
guard_interpreter :default
package_name "7-Zip"
source "C:\http:\chefserver.net:8080\installers\7z922-x64.msi"
timeout 600
returns [0]
cookbook_name "test"
recipe_name "7zip"
end

Is this normal in Windows? Im trying to figure which management tool
is better for my windows data center…

Cheers!

2

Hi Carlos,
I think you might need to use single quotes rather than double quotes:
’ blah’ rather than "blah"
I think this is because you haven’t escape the “string” so it’s interpreting it oddly.

Try and let us know how you get on.

Thanks
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Camacho [mailto:carlos.camacho@frontiersin.org]
Sent: 28 May 2014 09:21
To: chef@lists.opscode.com
Subject: [chef] windows_package source problems in windows 2008 and not in 2012

Hello, I’m creating some recipes to install packages automatically and I’m receiving a very odd behaviour.

In this example i have this simple recipe:

windows_package ‘7-Zip’ do
source "http://chefserver.net:8080/installers/7z922-x64.msi"
action :install
end

When chef-client is executed in the source path of the msi is appended c:…
source “C:\http:\chefserver.net:8080\installers\7z922-x64.msi”

And this only happens in windows server 2008R2 in Server 2012 works fine…

And in the chef-client i get this…

Chef::Exceptions::Package

msi_open_package: unexpected status 1619: This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.

Resource Declaration:

In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/test/recipes/7zip.rb

10: windows_package ‘7-Zip’ do
11: source 'http://chefserver.net:8080/installers/7z922-x64.msi’
12: action :install
13: end

Compiled Resource:

Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/test/recipes/7zip.rb:10:in `from_file’

windows_package(“7-Zip”) do
provider Chef::Provider::package::Windows
action [:install]
retries 0
retry_delay 2
guard_interpreter :default
package_name "7-Zip"
source "C:\http:\chefserver.net:8080\installers\7z922-x64.msi"
timeout 600
returns [0]
cookbook_name "test"
recipe_name "7zip"
end

Is this normal in Windows? Im trying to figure which management tool is better for my windows data center…

Cheers!

3

The windows package resource doesn’t support directly downloading and installing a package. You need to download the file with something like remote_file then install it.

--
Daniel DeLeo

On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Carlos Camacho wrote:

Hello, I'm creating some recipes to install packages automatically and
I'm receiving a very odd behaviour.

In this example i have this simple recipe:

windows_package '7-Zip' do
source "http://chefserver.net:8080/installers/7z922-x64.msi"
action :install
end

When chef-client is executed in the source path of the msi is appended c:..
source "C:\http:\chefserver.net:8080 (http://chefserver.net:8080)\installers\7z922-x64.msi"

And this only happens in windows server 2008R2 in Server 2012 works fine...

And in the chef-client i get this..

Chef::Exceptions::Package

msi_open_package: unexpected status 1619: This installation package
could not be opened. Verify that the package exists
and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to
verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.

Resource Declaration:

In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/test/recipes/7zip.rb

10: windows_package '7-Zip' do
11: source 'http://chefserver.net:8080/installers/7z922-x64.msi'
12: action :install
13: end

Compiled Resource:

Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/test/recipes/7zip.rb:10:in `from_file'

windows_package("7-Zip") do
provider Chef::Provider::package::Windows
action [:install]
retries 0
retry_delay 2
guard_interpreter :default
package_name "7-Zip"
source "C:\http:\chefserver.net:8080 (http://chefserver.net:8080)\installers\7z922-x64.msi"
timeout 600
returns [0]
cookbook_name "test"
recipe_name "7zip"
end

Is this normal in Windows? Im trying to figure which management tool
is better for my windows data center..

Cheers!