[chef] Re: Installing MSI's with Chef

[Aditya Karanjkar < >]

Hi Kenneth,

By what I understand, the resource that is provided by the windows cookbook will be used if you include the cookbook as a dependency in the metadata.rb file. So for e.g in metadata.rb, include the following line:

depends 'windows'

Also as the package that you want to install is a MSI, you should be specifying the installer_type as :msi:

windows_package 'ActivePerl 5.16.3 Build 1604' do

  source "c:\\temp\\ActivePerl-5.16.3.1604-MSWin32-x64-298023.msi"

  options '/q /lvx* c:\temp\activeperl.log'

  installer_type :msi

  action :install

end

Hope this helps.

-Aditya

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Kenneth Barry < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm unsure if I am using it correctly. 

When the install is done manually, it take a very very very long time.

Here is my recipe section:

...

windows_package 'ActivePerl 5.16.3 Build 1604' do

  source "c:\\temp\\ActivePerl-5.16.3.1604-MSWin32-x64-298023.msi"

  options '/q /lvx* c:\temp\activeperl.log'

  installer_type :custom

  action :install

end

...

Here is the output from chef-client

[2014-06-30T13:22:30-05:00] INFO: Processing windows_package[ActivePerl 5.16.3 Build 1604] action i

nstall (nonwebserver::taskanalytics line 150)

[2014-06-30T13:22:30-05:00] INFO: Installing windows_package[ActivePerl 5.16.3 Build 1604] version

latest

[2014-06-30T13:22:30-05:00] INFO: Starting installation...this could take awhile.

I think it might be hanging.  (get-process on the box thats being cheffed doesnt show msiexec, as i am expecting)

I wanna start at the beginning, and just make sure that I am even using the resource properly. How do I know if I am using the windows_package from the cookbook over the one thats baked in to the core?