[chef] Upgrading chef-client on Windows not supported?

[Jeppe Nejsum Madsen < >]

Ohai,

I've been trying to figure out how to best upgrade chef-client on Windows machines, but can't find any info about it.

This seems a bit strange since Chef is clearly being pushed as being windows friendly (http://www.getchef.com/solutions/windows/).

The official(?) way of upgrading chef-client (http://www.getchef.com/blog/2013/12/20/managing-chef-with-chef/) unfortunately doesn't work: https://github.com/hw-cookbooks/omnibus_updater/issues/32

So for this not to end up too whiny, I decided to actually fix the omnibus_updater issue.

What I got seems to work to some degree in that the MSI gets downloaded and the installation starts. But during the installation it seems like the running chef-client process gets a SIGINT and stops with a failure. But the installation continues (and the RestartManager says a reboot is required)

Recipe: omnibus_updater::downloader←[0m
  * remote_file[omnibus_remote[chef-client-11.6.2-1.windows.msi]] action create_if_missing←[0m←[32m
    - copy file downloaded from [] into C:/chef/cache/chef-client-11.6.2-1.windows.msi←[0m←[37m
        (file sizes exceed 10000000 bytes, diff output suppressed)←[0m
←[0m
Recipe: omnibus_updater::installer←[0m
  * ruby_block[Omnibus Chef install notifier] action create←[0m←[32m
    - execute the ruby block Omnibus Chef install notifier←[0m
←[0m
  * file[/tmp/nocheck] action create←[0m (skipped due to only_if)←[0m
  * ruby_block[omnibus chef killer] action nothing←[0m (up to date)←[0m
  * windows_package[stfu] action nothing←[0m (up to date)←[0m
  * ruby_block[Omnibus Chef install notifier] action nothing←[0m (up to date)←[0m
  * windows_package[chef-client] action install←[0m[2014-02-27T22:04:13+01:00] FATAL: SIGINT received, stopping
[2014-02-27T22:04:51+01:00] FATAL: SIGINT received, stopping

================================================================================←[0m
←[31mError executing action `install` on resource 'windows_package[chef-client]'←[0m
================================================================================←[0m

←[0m
SystemExit←[0m
----------←[0m
exit←[0m

After a while the installation does seems to complete...

Is the only alternative really to install the MSI through some other means?

/Jeppe