[chef] Re: Re: Problem bootstraping chef-client to Windows machines

[Steven Danna < >]

Hi Carlos,

>> Its normal to release new client versions with this type of problems!?!?

The goal is that such problems are caught in testing and via the
distribution of release candidates and betas.  Unfortunately, it seems
a problem might have gotten past those safeguards in this case.

My suspicion is that the windows cookbook has a dependency on ruby-wmi
but doesn't ensure it is installed.  This potentially worked in past
versions of Chef because of Chef's own dependencies but changed with
the following commit:

https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/e0c2469f3af617c34f13a32cc8b0490204be7979#diff-ea2858b57306467ffd3011d3ce3e6510

I (or someone else) will post some more details once we can look into
this problem.

Cheers,

Steven