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

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

The windows package resource doesn’t support directly downloading and 
installing a package. You need to download the file with something like 
remote_file then install it.

http://docs.opscode.com/resource_remote_file.html  ;

--  
Daniel DeLeo


On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at 1:20 AM, Carlos Camacho wrote:

> 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 
> (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 
> (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!