[chef-dev] Re: Re: ChefDK Windows Status

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Quick update here, I just merged the omnibus patches for ChefDK: 
https://github.com/opscode/omnibus-chef/pull/150 At this point it should be ;
possible to at least build locally. We also merged in an update to make the 
MSI creation more generalized so it can support projects other than just 
chef-client. Since I just merged my Omnibus changes late this afternoon, we 
haven’t had a chance to do a full build including MSI creation, so there 
could be some updates required there.

If you do a build, it should succeed (modulo MSI stuff) but will leave you 
with a only somewhat functional copy of chef-client. I’ve confirmed that our 
patches to use win32ole directly (here: 
https://github.com/opscode/chef/pull/1405) fix the issues we’ve had with 
ruby-wmi, but we need to extract the duplicated code between ohai and chef to 
a shared library. That work is in progress now. We also will need to update 
the chef-dk application to use a newer version of chef-client, as it 
currently depends on the release version which has a dependency on a ruby 
1.9-only windows gem. We’ll try to get that sorted today. 
https://github.com/opscode/chef-dk/issues/41  ;

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Daniel DeLeo