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  • Nov 26 2018 18:09
    @ferventcoder banned @Mikewazovsk1
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
To make it easy on yourself - use puppetlabs/chocolatey - it's a drop in replacement for chocolatey/chocolatey
tek0011
@tek0011
thats the one i use 2.0.1 i think. latest
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
And it fixes and adds quite a bit more
Perfect!
I saw they are getting ready to release another version
Are you on the Puppet community slack? They have a #windows room
It's extremely helpful for Puppet on Windows
tek0011
@tek0011
side note. nice work and turn around time on that 10.5 fix with the processasadmin issue
oh no. didnt know they had a slack channel. I drop by the irc channel from time to time
ill check it out. thanks!
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
https://slack.puppet.com/
tek0011
@tek0011
even better. ty
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
@tek0011 when you have paying customers and have a gating issue - you turn around a fix very quickly ;)
tek0011
@tek0011
this thing you created is the best thing since <enter some nostalgic cool thing> - really awesome work. Windows has needed this since. Well. Since Windows.
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
Thank you sir. The community has really helped shape it into what it is today
All we did was put in a large helping of common sense way back in the beginning
Gene Liverman
@genebean
Does anyone know why when the chocolatey package for the puppet agent updates it restarts / interrupts the network?
dragon788
@dragon788
@genebean that seems weird, does it show anything in the chocolatey.log or is there anything in the chocolateyInstall.ps1 for the agent that would trigger that?
Gene Liverman
@genebean
I hopped over to the puppet slack community and they are pointing me to some puppet tickets… I’ll post back over here in a few minutes with what they found
Gene Liverman
@genebean
It looks like this was an issue with how windows handles msi installs that Puppet resolved in https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PA-768 / versions 1.10.x
Looks like it got reported first in https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PA-663
dragon788
@dragon788
awesome, good to know!
ricou84
@ricou84
hello
i see that chocolatey/chocolatey puppet module have not been touch since july 2016? is it dead?
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
Not dead, just on hold for a bit @ricou84 - did you miss the boat to switch over to puppetlabs/chocolatey? It's supported and a drop in replacement to chocolatey/chocolatey
Plus it has chocolateysource, chocolateyconfig, and chocolateyfeature
marcinbojko
@marcinbojko
And switching from chocolatey/chocolatey is painless
Gerold Katzinger
@kkzinger
are there any good workaround options while waiting on https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-4418
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
Maybe comment on the issue - the more voices on those, the higher the priority
@kkzinger ^^
Gerold Katzinger
@kkzinger
done.
Louis Mayorga
@lmayorga1980
if I try to install a chocolatey package of a software that is already installed. Does chocolatey puppet will check and skip the re-installation?
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
@lmayorga1980 depends on some factors (facters ;))
@lmayorga1980 first is the Chocolatey package itself. Is the package already installed or just the software?
Louis Mayorga
@lmayorga1980
just software
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
So Chocolatey (and by extension the Puppet provider) are going to look at what Chocolatey has installed and go off of that.
So if the package is not also there, it will be sure to install that
now this is where it gets interesting
Louis Mayorga
@lmayorga1980
uhmmm
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
If the installation script checks to see if the software is already installed and doesn't do anything, then nothing
so it would be a noop and it would be recognizing the software.
That is not built into Chocolatey itself yet, so it would have to be implemented explicitly
Louis Mayorga
@lmayorga1980
I think serverspec has a very good powershell script that checks for package on windows and if its already installed
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
see https://chocolatey.org/packages/dotnet4.6.1
Louis Mayorga
@lmayorga1980
maybe something like that can be used as the base of chocolateyInstall.ps1?
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
note that it checks to see if the software is already installed
Louis Mayorga
@lmayorga1980
and if you want you can force it?
Rob Reynolds
@ferventcoder
also take a look at https://chocolatey.org/packages/KB2919355#files (or any KB package for that matter) - there are two scenarios for Noop
if the software is already installed, it doesn't do anything but recognize the package installation itself (no additional software install)
and if it doesn't apply to that version of Windows it moves on (due to non-grouped dependencies per Windows version)