[chef] Re: RE: windows knife troubles, ATTN: adamed

[Sergey Romanovsky < >]

Adam,

Thanks for the links. Workaround of adding a comma after a role name works 
fine.

> I do have one other question: are you running this from PowerShell or 
> cmd.exe?

I've tried 3 shells with the same result: cmd, ps and sh

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Adam Edwards 
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 wrote:
> Hello -- your first issue sounds like a quoting / globbing issue we've seen
> before caused by the mingw layer's command line parsing. If you have a
> directory / file that starts with "role" in the cwd, that can trigger this.
> That's often the case in a "chef-repo" directory -- here are some tickets
> that track this:
>
> https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2486
> https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE-1
>
> Have you tried changing your cwd, and using the -c option to specify
> knife.rb so you can run it without the globbing?
>
> I do have one other question: are you running this from PowerShell or
> cmd.exe?
>
> There aren't great workarounds here other than the one I mentioned above,
> though in the case of knife-1 it looks like some quoting magic helped. MinGw
> is the right place for a fix, but there is apparently disagreement as to the
> fix: http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/1621/.
>
> A fix on our side could simply be to add a "role" subcommand or "--role"
> option so that the role can be specified without "role[x]" and globbing can
> be avoided.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Adam
>
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> Subject: [chef] windows knife troubles, ATTN: adamed
>
> Hello,
>
> I have troubles with running knife on windows. A simple task of adding a
> role fails. Here http://pastebin.com/P4cFwH6u you can see that role
> "role[_123456789-qwerqvasfrqetftwgrsygahbafd]" cannot be assigned to the
> box, recipe[roles] assigned instead.
>
> irc#chef @coderanger guy suggested to ask adamed for help.
>
> I used that strange long role name because I can easily reproduce the
> problem. Sometimes it fails with pretty small and human readable role names
> like 'foo-bar'. But the problem is hard to reproduce every time.
> The same command works very well on linux.
>
> One more issue windows knife command runs 4.25 times slower than linux knife
> command:
> linux$ time knife search node 'name:BBX032-VA-1'
> ...
> real 0m1.916s
>
> windows>  Measure-Command {knife search node 'name:BBX032-VA-1'}
> ...
> TotalSeconds      : 8.1286333.
>
> I.e. it's x4.25 slower
>
> We're evaluating enterprise chef as a solution to manage 4k boxes.
> Mostly windows boxes managed by mostly windows sysadmins. So we need a good
> windows support for workstation and for nodes.
> That first issue is a showstopper for us. The second issue isn't so critical
> but still it's a pain.
>
> Thanks.