[chef] gem_package with local gem file barfs...

[Ringo De Smet < >]

Hello,

I have a locally patched version of ohai (for OHAI-235) and versioned
it 0.5.9. This gem installs fine manually. Now I try to install this
gem with a gem_package resource as follows:

gem_package "#{Chef::Config['file_cache_path']}/#{ohaiGem}" do
  action :install
  version ohaiGemVersion
  notifies :restart, "service[chef-client]"
end

However, I get a stacktrace from withing rubygems:

https://gist.github.com/818558

When adding the gem_binary option to the resource, it works like a charm:

gem_package "#{Chef::Config['file_cache_path']}/#{ohaiGem}" do
  action :install
  version ohaiGemVersion
  gem_binary "gem" #Needed to use a gem command line client
  notifies :restart, "service[chef-client]"
end


Bug?

Ringo