[chef] Re: Windows Chef - WMI Dependancy

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Iain Prior wrote:

> Hi all
>  
> I’m new here, but very eager to learn!
>  
> I’m having trouble with the “windows” cookbook: It appears that chef-client 
> is trying to download the wmi dependency file from the internet. My problem 
> is that my “clients” don’t have internet access, they need to get 
> everything they are interested in from intranet resources. Please 
> help/point me at the right place to start?
>  
> EDIT: I have managed to temporarily fix this by: knife cookbook delete 
> windows 1.34.0  
> This has enabled the older version on the chef server 1.32 to become the 
> used one.  
>  
> What’s the right solution though?
>  
> Thanks!
> Iain
>  
> [2014-08-07T08:56:11+04:00] INFO: Processing chef_gem[wmi-lite] action 
> install (
> dynamically defined)
> [2014-08-07T08:56:32+04:00] WARN: failed to find gem wmi-lite (>= 0) from 
> [http
> ://rubygems.org/] (http://rubygems.org/])
> [2014-08-07T08:56:32+04:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
> [2014-08-07T08:56:32+04:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
> [2014-08-07T08:56:32+04:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to 
> c:/chef/cache/chef-stack
> trace.out
> [2014-08-07T08:56:32+04:00] ERROR: ArgumentError: chef_gem[wmi-lite] 
> (dynamicall
> y defined) had an error: ArgumentError: Illformed requirement [""]
> [2014-08-07T08:56:32+04:00] ERROR: Sleeping for 60 seconds before trying 
> again

You can:

* download the gem manually and create a cookbook to install it
* run a gem mirror of some sort
* allow access to rubygems.org in your firewall or via proxy server.

--  
Daniel DeLeo