[chef] RE: Hardcoded rubygems.org

["Durfee, Bernie (GE Corporate)" < >]

I sort of answered my own question, here’s a monkey patch to remove the hardcoded gem source:

 

 

# Monkey patch to fix hardcoded gem source

require 'chef/provider/package/rubygems'

Chef::Provider::Package::Rubygems.class_eval do

  def install_via_gem_command(name, version)

    if @new_resource.source =~ /\.gem$/i

      name = @new_resource.source

    else

      src = "@new_resource.source" && "  "

    end

    if version

      shell_out!("#{gem_binary_path} install #{name} -q --no-rdoc --no-ri -v \"#{version}\"#{src}#{opts}", :env=>nil)

    else

      shell_out!("#{gem_binary_path} install \"#{name}\" -q --no-rdoc --no-ri #{src}#{opts}", :env=>nil)

    end

  end

end

 

 

 

Bernie

 

From: Durfee, Bernie (GE Corporate)
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 10:23 AM
To:
Subject: [chef] Hardcoded rubygems.org

 

So the gem_package provider hardcodes ‘rubygems.org’ as a gem source. That’s great, if you can or want to always get gems from there, but if you’re behind a corporate firewall, this is not a good thing because it breaks even if you have the gem in a local repo…

 

 

> gem list stickler -r --source=http://mylocalrepo.com/gemrepo/

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

stickler (2.4.0)

 

> gem list stickler -r --source=http://mylocalrepo.com/gemrepo/ --source=http://rubygems.org

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

ERROR:  http://rubygems.org/ does not appear to be a repository

ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)

    SocketError: getaddrinfo: No address associated with hostname (http://rubygems.org/yaml)

 

 

There were several issues opened regarding this, which now seem to have been rolled up into an enhancement (CHEF-4539). That’s fine, except for me, it’s still a bug.

 

Does anyone know of any workarounds for the hardcoded ‘rubygems.org’?

 

Bernie