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Kevin Weinrich

@kwein1

I now have choco working via DSC for packages that are stored in Chocolatey's public repo. And I have the ORDChoco Source set up via DSC. When I log in to the remote server, I can do this:

 choco list -source ORDChoco
Chocolatey v0.10.15
sccm 0.1.0.20210106
1 packages found.

That was created by the following DSCWorkshop-style configuration:

ChocolateyPackages:
  Software:
    Ensure: Present
  Sources:
    Name: ORDChoco
    Ensure: Present
    Source: '\\A\chiz$\software installs and downloads\ChocolateyPackages'
  Features:
    Name: useFipsCompliantChecksums
    Ensure: Present
  Packages:
    - Name: sccm
      Ensure: Present
      ChocolateyOptions:
        Source: ORDChoco

The one thing I still can't do is actually install my custom sccm package from ORDChoco. Am I getting hit with permissions, since I'm doing a DSC push from server A to B, and ORDChoco is on A? Is it because the account (SYSTEM, I guess?) that DSC is using can't access the share on A from B?

Here's the peccant part of my DSC push:

VERBOSE: [B]:                            [[ChocolateyPackage]Chocolatey_sccm::[ChocolateyPackages]ChocolateyPackages] Installing the
following packages:
VERBOSE: [B]:                            [[ChocolateyPackage]Chocolatey_sccm::[ChocolateyPackages]ChocolateyPackages] sccm
VERBOSE: [B]:                            [[ChocolateyPackage]Chocolatey_sccm::[ChocolateyPackages]ChocolateyPackages] By installing you
accept licenses for the packages.
VERBOSE: [B]:                            [[ChocolateyPackage]Chocolatey_sccm::[ChocolateyPackages]ChocolateyPackages] sccm not installed.
 The package was not found with the source(s) listed.
VERBOSE: [B]:                            [[ChocolateyPackage]Chocolatey_sccm::[ChocolateyPackages]ChocolateyPackages]  Source(s):
'\\A\chiz$\software installs and downloads\ChocolateyPackages'

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@tunisiano187 I'd use an exec for that and maybe an unless or an onlyif if it's not been pinned (run choco pin and parse it) to be idempotent.

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The one thing I still can't do is actually install my custom sccm package from ORDChoco. Am I getting hit with permissions, since I'm doing a DSC push from server A to B, and ORDChoco is on A? Is it because the account (SYSTEM, I guess?) that DSC is using can't access the share on A from B?

You'll need to make sure B$ (dollar is important) has access to the share.

Kevin Weinrich

@kwein1

@pauby I don't know what B$ is - do you mean the server name followed by a $? As a userid?

Is there a better way to do this - to push the install file from A to B (via DSC somehow), and then install it locally on B via DSC?

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@pauby I don't know what B$ is - do you mean the server name followed by a $? As a userid?

Yeah, the server name.

Is there a better way to do this - to push the install file from A to B (via DSC somehow), and then install it locally on B via DSC?

You could do it that way, but then you may have to update all of your packages that are using it.

If you want to use file shares with authorisation this is the way it needs to be done unfortunately. This is why we recommend you use a repository manager.

Kevin Weinrich

@kwein1

I was able to get the package install to work after changing the permissions on the Source share, as @pauby indicated - add B$ to NTFS permissions. Works great!

Kevin Weinrich

@kwein1

Now I'm working on my 2nd custom package. This one fails, which is probably due to something I'm not doing right in constructing the package. But when I look for details on precisely WHAT went wrong with the installation, I just get "See the log for details...". The log just says

2021-01-15 15:04:12,065 1316 [ERROR] - ERROR: The running command stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter is set to Stop: The operation completed successfully.
2021-01-15 15:04:12,065 1316 [DEBUG] - Built-in PowerShell host called with ['[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = '';[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ''; & import-module -name 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\helpers\chocolateyInstaller.psm1'; & 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\helpers\chocolateyScriptRunner.ps1' -packageScript 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\bigfix\tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1' -installArguments '' -packageParameters '''] exited with '-1'.
2021-01-15 15:04:12,065 1316 [DEBUG] - Calling command ['"C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe" /a']
2021-01-15 15:04:12,174 1316 [DEBUG] - Command ['"C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe" /a'] exited with '1116'

I just don't see what it didn't like. Is there any way to get further debugging info about why it blows up? Or how can I manually walk through the package installation?

Note: In my chocolateyinstall.ps1, I do a "reg import ..." command which IS working. So I'm pretty sure it's the "Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage ..." command that's failing.

Kevin Weinrich

@kwein1

It appears that if I manually do:
setup.exe /s /v/qn
from the chocolatey package folder on the target server, it works. But
cinst bigfix -s ordchoco
still doesn't. How can I see what command line choco is actually using to try to run the setup.exe? (As I understand, it's using my chocolateyinstall.ps1 to call Install-ChocolateyInstallPackage, and the magic happens inside there)

Sathish

@satheeshsoft

Previously created chocolatey package working fine. The same code i used in new package but some changes in install file name and descriptions. The new package created with cpack command but not installing it, install failed. https://github.com/satheeshsoft/Soft-Cleaner-CY can you say what is missing here?

https://chocolatey.org/packages/SCSetup/3.8.21.49 package Soft Cleaner

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@kwein1 Do you get any more info when adding -vd to the choco command line?

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@satheeshsoft Have you looked at the gist? The error is on this line.

VoomDev

@VoomDev

Is it possible to install choco on mac?

daebenji

@daebenji

would you please stop spamming!

VoomDev

@VoomDev

ok sorry

but is it possible to run choco on mac

daebenji

@daebenji

why would you need to to use choco on mac? they have homebrew and choco is trying to automate the installation of windows packages...

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@VoomDev Chocolatey is the package manager for Windows. There is Homebrew on Mac.

(I removed the 'spam' comments)

Sathish

@satheeshsoft

@pauby can't understand the error. https://github.com/satheeshsoft/Soft-Cleaner-CY/blob/main/soft-cleaner.nuspec
https://github.com/satheeshsoft/Soft-Cleaner-CY/blob/main/chocolateyinstall.ps1
main files

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@satheeshsoft The specific error is at these lines - it can't find the file.

Sathish

@satheeshsoft

@pauby got it, the directory name should be same name!

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@satheeshsoft :+1:

Sathish

@satheeshsoft

again some doubts

the app directory should be inside chocolatey directory?

sorry i forgot can you explain how to overcome the error

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@satheeshsoft Have you downloaded the Chocolatey Test Environment?

Sathish

@satheeshsoft

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@satheeshsoft Then that would be my suggestion to allow you to troubleshoot the issue.

Sathish

@satheeshsoft

i created now but cinst not working message showing 3 attempts reached

created i think it may works fine, here checking max attempts reached

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@satheeshsoft Are you testing this in the Chocolatey Test Environment?

Sathish

@satheeshsoft

its difficult to understand, now created the pack

test environment difficult to understand & time taking

if the test environment automated its fair (like very few user inputs & also it works for the user demand without asking to user)

just saying a suggession

uploaded new copy

@pauby thanking to you

Sathish

@satheeshsoft

i used the same method in my software

Anonymous Planet

@AnonymousPlanet

Hi @pauby :) Concerning Issue chocolatey/chocolatey.org#687 about Tor Exit nodes. I just tested from about 10 various exit nodes. It's still 403 forbidden on the API no matter what.

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Anonymous Planet

@AnonymousPlanet

Also tested after resolving hCaptchas on Browser (using same exit nodes) and still forbidden unfortunately.

(hCaptchas are not required on the chocolatey.org website from a Tor Browser but are required when accessing the API). So there is no issue accessing the website in itself from Tor. Just the API URL.

Martin Bergman

@misse

Hello! I work at Electronic arts, managing an internal service that caches chocolatey (among other things) and starting today we're getting HTTP response 403 when trying to reach chocolatey. I've created a support ticket for this, but a colleague suggested I'd reach out here. Anyone up for a chat about why this happened and what we can do to get unblocked?

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

Hi Martin, Gitter chat is for community support. For issues around IP blocking you did the right thing in raising a ticket which was responded to this morning.

@misse ^^

Martin Bergman

@misse

Thanks @pauby ! Has my response to the response been registered? :)

Paul Broadwith

@pauby

@misse Not as yet. The last update was the response from me this morning.

Martin Bergman

@misse

Something is amiss then, I did respond to that email at 11:16 GMT but haven't seen anymore replies, I'll DM you

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