Puppet module for Chocolatey installation

This module installs Chocolatey, apt-get like Windows package manager. Package provider for Chocolatey is part of another module rismoney/chocolatey.

Requirements

Module has been tested on:

• Puppet 3.6
• OS:
  • Windows Server 2008 SP1

Required modules:

• stdlib (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib)
• powershell (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-powershell)

Quick Start

include chocolatey_sw

Full configuration options:

class { 'chocolatey_sw':
  command  => 'iex ...',                      # command to install Chocolatey
  creates  => ['C:\ProgramData\chocolatey'],  # check for install directories
  provider => powershell,                     # command Exec provider
}

Example

include chocolatey_sw

package { 'cygwin':
  ensure   => present,
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  require  => Class['chocolatey_sw'],
}

CERIT Scientific Cloud, support@cerit-sc.cz

2015-02-18 - Release 0.9.3

Fix module metadata.

Bugfixes

• Fixed module metadata to avoid problems on Open Source Puppet.

2014-12-08 - Release 0.9.2

Fix file/directory permissions.

Bugfixes

• Fix PF module archive file/directory permissions.

2014-09-09 - Release 0.9.1

Summary

Increase install timeout (from default 300 secs to 600 secs). Fix install problems on buggy PowerShells (i.e. clean Windows 7).

Features

• Increase exec timeout on installer from 300 secs to 600 secs. Make timeout configurable.

Bugfixes

• Redirect all output to $null to avoid installation problems with old buggy PowerShells (i.e. on clean Windows 7). See http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/2008/07/30/workaround-the-os-handles-position-is-not-what-filestream-expected/

2014-09-04 - Release 0.9.0

Summary

Initial release.