dynamic arguments fail when chocolateyinstall.ps1 has no arguments

[lmayorga1980]

chocolateyinstall.ps1

Install-ChocolateyPackage 'siteminder' 'exe' '' 'http://mywebserver/puppet/siteminder-12.51.6-win64.exe'

puppet

  file { 'config' :
    ensure  => present,
    path    => "C:\\Temp\\${pkg}.properties",
    content => template('siteminder/siteminder-win64.properties.erb'),
  } ->

  package { $pkg :
    ensure          => $version,
    name            => 'siteminder',
    provider        => 'chocolatey',
    install_options => ['-override', '-installArgs', '"', 'f', '"C:\\Temp\\${pkg}.properties"','-i','silent', '"'],
  }

log file

https://gist.github.com/lmayorga1980/664e90b62b944dd199c6

[ferventcoder]

@lmayorga1980 looks like the arguments are not being applied successfully -
https://gist.github.com/lmayorga1980/664e90b62b944dd199c6#file-puppet-chocolatey-log-L228

What version of the choco provider and what version of chocolatey?

[ferventcoder]

It appears that you may not have applied the information as the instructions have stated. https://forge.puppetlabs.com/chocolatey/chocolatey#install-options-with-quotes--spaces

Try this:

 install_options => ['-override', '-installArgs', '"', 'f', '""C:\\Temp\\${pkg}.properties""','-i','silent', '"'],

Note the double double quotes in surrounding something you need quoted.

[lmayorga1980]

Interesting since the it did not contain the spaces. Now it seems that the ${pkg} variable is not interpolated.

install_options => ['-override', '-installArgs', '"', 'f', \"'""C:\\Temp\\${pkg}.properties""'\",'-i','silent', '"'], maybe?

[ferventcoder]

Interesting since the it did not contain the spaces.

But you want to specify quotes. If you don't need quotes passed it becomes easier.

Try this instead

install_options => ['-override', '-installArgs', '"', 'f', """C:\\Temp\\${pkg}.properties""",'-i','silent', '"'],

[ferventcoder]

you can also add --noop in there and watch the log until the options look like they are being passed right.

[lmayorga1980]

See the expanded one...

choco.exe install siteminder -version 12.51.6 -dvy -override --execution-timeout=3600 -installArgs " -f C:\Temp\siteminder-12.51.6-win64.properties -i silent " -source http://myserver/chocopack
I wonder if the timeout overlaps with the puppet apply timeout. Otherwise I will need an exec type.

[ferventcoder]

3600 seconds. That's a long time.

[ferventcoder]

See the expanded one...

Not completely sure I follow. What is the option you set?