[chef-dev] Re: ChefDK Windows Status

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Friday, May 2, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Daniel DeLeo wrote:

> Hi Chefs,  
>  
> I’ve gotten some interest from people outside Chef-the-company about 
> helping out on ChefDK on windows, so I’d like to share where we’re at in 
> detail.
>  
> The good news is that I’ve been able to get though the build phase 
> successfully. I have these patches either in-flight or merged:
>  
> https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef/pull/150
> https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-software/pull/185
> https://github.com/opscode/appbundler/pull/3
> https://github.com/opscode/chef/pull/1399
>  
> The bad news is that Chef’s tests fail because of a segfault triggered by 
> ruby-wmi:
>  
> https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-5267
>  
> I should also point out that Chef is currently using a fork of ruby-wmi 
> called rdp-ruby-wmi. I haven’t looked at it too deeply, but it seems that 
> ohai uses features or APIs from this version that are not available in the 
> mainline ruby-wmi 0.4.0. In any case, simply upgrading to the newer 
> mainline version does not resolve the segfault bug.
Quick update, we seem to be making progress with this approach: 
https://github.com/opscode/chef/pull/1402  ;