[chef] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Why is my windows_package source attribute getting mucked up?

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On 2/12/15 7:47 AM, Fouts, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Fouts, Chris wrote:
>
> > More (annoying) inconsistencies (in expectations) between Windows and Linux 
> > based nodes.
> >   
> > Chris
> I agree there are a lot of areas where Windows functionality needs to catch 
> up, but this isn’t one of them. On Linux when you install a package that 
> doesn’t come from a centralized package repo, you have to use a separate 
> remote file to fetch it as well. The difference is that most Linux distros 
> come with a centralized package repo, which provides most of the packages you 
> want. The only way Chef could make windows behave similarly is to force you 
> to install Chocolatey when you install Chef. FWIW I had the exact same 
> experience on Solaris a few years back where the only centralized package 
> repos are (were?) 3rd party so you had to do a bit of extra work to fetch 
> everything.
Also on par with AIX which has RPM package, but lacks yum support. We do 
better support distros that make things easier.  There's also a ton of 
contributed code in the yum and apt providers that is user contributed.