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

[Adam Edwards < >]

We've released a fix in the Windows cookbook for this issue to Supermarket
and tested it on different versions of Chef including Chef 10.32.2, Chef
11.12.8, and Chef 11.14.2:
https://supermarket.getchef.com/cookbooks/windows. Please let us know if
you're still seeing this issue with the new version 1.34.0 of the Windows
cookbook.

Thank you for your patience, and our apologies for not finding this prior to
the release of Chef 11.14.2. We are adding additional regression automation
through test-kitchen to catch this sort of problem on different platforms
prior to release and even commit.

-Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Edwards 
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Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 8:59 AM
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Subject: RE: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Problem bootstraping chef-client to Windows
machines

Yes, it's definitely a problem in the Windows cookbook, which should
probably be using chef_gem to bring back the dependency. We'll test out a
fix to that cookbook and once that's verified get it out to Supermarket

Thank you Carlos, and our apologies for not catching this dependency prior
to release. The cookbook should not have taken a dependency on Chef
satisfying its gem dependencies, something we can get better at catching now
that test-kitchen is getting imrpvoed cookbook testing support on Windows.,

-Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Camacho 
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Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 7:13 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Problem bootstraping chef-client to Windows
machines

Ok perfect,

I thought that i was using a chef-client release candidate, maybe its useful
to only bootstrap new nodes/clients with 1 lower version to mitigate some
issues and add one more safeguard.

The issue its exactly what you are describing, "Windows cookbook has a
dependency on ruby-wmi, but doesn't resolve this dependence and it fails"

In this case to have a conclusion, its a problem with the Windows cookbook
instead the chef-client (Works perfect in Linux as usual)??


Best regards,

Carlos.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Steven Danna 
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 wrote:
> 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/e0c2469f3af617c34f13a32cc8b0490
> 204be7979#diff-ea2858b57306467ffd3011d3ce3e6510
>
> I (or someone else) will post some more details once we can look into
> this problem.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Steven