[chef] RE: windows_package source problems in windows 2008 and not in 2012

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Hi Carlos,
  I think you might need to use single quotes rather than double quotes:
' blah'  rather than "blah"
I think this is because you haven't escape the "string" so it's interpreting 
it oddly.

Try and let us know how you get on.

Thanks
Chris


-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Camacho 
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Sent: 28 May 2014 09:21
To: 

 
Subject: [chef] windows_package source problems in windows 2008 and not in 
2012

Hello, I'm creating some recipes to install packages automatically and  I'm 
receiving a very odd behaviour.

In this example i have this simple recipe:

windows_package '7-Zip' do
  source "http://chefserver.net:8080/installers/7z922-x64.msi";
  action :install
end


When chef-client is executed in the source path of the msi is appended c:\..
  source "C:\\http:\\chefserver.net:8080\\installers\\7z922-x64.msi"


And this only happens in windows server 2008R2 in Server 2012 works fine...



And in the chef-client i get this..


Chef::Exceptions::Package
-------------------------
msi_open_package: unexpected status 1619: This installation package could not 
be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or 
contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows 
Installer package.

Resource Declaration:
---------------------
# In c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/test/recipes/7zip.rb

 10: windows_package '7-Zip' do
 11:   source 'http://chefserver.net:8080/installers/7z922-x64.msi'
 12:   action :install
 13: end

Compiled Resource:
------------------
# Declared in c:/chef/cache/cookbooks/test/recipes/7zip.rb:10:in `from_file'

windows_package("7-Zip") do
  provider Chef::Provider::Package::Windows
  action [:install]
  retries 0
  retry_delay 2
  guard_interpreter :default
  package_name "7-Zip"
  source "C:\\http:\\chefserver.net:8080\\installers\\7z922-x64.msi"
  timeout 600
  returns [0]
  cookbook_name "test"
  recipe_name "7zip"
end




Is this normal in Windows? Im trying to figure which management tool is 
better for my windows data center..

Cheers!