Error when Powershell provisioner environment variable value contains =

[maniSbindra]

• Description When trying to pass parameter to powershell script with Powershell provisioner, if the parameter value has “==” in it, the packer build fails with error “Shell provisioner environment variables must be in key=value”.

• Packer Version : 0.12.0

• Sample Provisioner script to Reproduce Error:

  .
  .
  {
          "type": "powershell",
          "scripts": ["IIS_Common2.ps1"],
          "environment_vars":["SECRET_KEY={{user `SECRET_KEY`}}"]
  }
  .
  .

SECRET_KEY=osdfasdfasdfasdfasYUsdfsOx+sdfsdfadZk/ud2asdff1I+UYasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfSU4DDFDSCd2sMGGQ==

Same error received even when == in SECRET_KEY replaced by \=\= if == is removed packer build executes without any error

[mefellows]

Thanks for raising this. Note this repository is mostly inactive and has been moved to mitchellh/packer, have you considered upgrading?

[maniSbindra]

Thanks, I tried with version 0.12.3, I think the issue is resolved.