windows_package shows incorrect symbols vs strings

[miketheman]

Attribute Description installer_type The package type. Possible values: :inno, :installshield, :msi, :nsis, and :wise.

Chef::Exceptions::ValidationFailed: Option installer_type must be a kind of [String]!  You passed :msi.
        from C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-mingw32/lib/chef/mixin/params_validate.rb:157:in `_pv_kind_of'
        from C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-mingw32/lib/chef/mixin/params_validate.rb:70:in `block (2 levels) in validate'
        from C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-mingw32/lib/chef/mixin/params_validate.rb:67:in `each'
        from C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-mingw32/lib/chef/mixin/params_validate.rb:67:in `block in validate'
        from C:/opscode/chef/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/chef-11.16.4-x86-

[jamescott]

https://github.com/opscode/chef/commit/c3dfc8ad3007ebd9628e2a0da87b5019f103ffbb#diff-3c9b1a519cef717fb2fa5d2f52a30477

It's supposed to be a symbol. That said, engineering is verifying this. If you use the windows cookbook, things should behave normally in the meantime.

[miketheman]

Don't wanna use the windows cookbook - want to use the Chef primitives. :)

[jamescott]

Yeah!

Engineering just confirmed that the string is correct for 11.x versions and will become symbol for 12.0. I am going to make the docs updates right now, and put a note in the 11.x version about that change.

Incidentally, the 12.0 client will move a couple more resources from the windows cookbook into core Chef -- reboot and windows_service:

http://docs.getchef.com/release/12-0/release_notes.html

[jamescott]

This:

https://github.com/opscode/chef-docs/commit/6a637d4c63e447aa7b1671c391b7fac25e4bdd65

will be a few hours, but should be live on the pages by late afternoon. Thank you for sending this in!

james

[miketheman]

No problem!

On Wed Nov 19 2014 at 3:12:38 PM jamescott notifications@github.com wrote:

This:

6a637d4 https://github.com/opscode/chef-docs/commit/6a637d4c63e447aa7b1671c391b7fac25e4bdd65

will be a few hours, but should be live on the pages by late afternoon. Thank you for sending this in!

james

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