installing chocolatey via OneGet nukes C:\Chocolatey\bin

[0xabu]

Possibly related to #3...

I started with a clean install of Win10. I then installed a bunch of chocolatey packages through OneGet, using version 2.8.5.130 of the Chocolatey provider. These packages ended up in C:\Chocolatey\lib... with shims in C:\Chocolatey\bin. So far so good (although I had to manually add bin to my PATH).

I wanted to play with the choco command line, to be able to do upgrades etc., and made the mistake of using OneGet to do it via "Install-Package chocolatey", which pulled down chocolatey v0.9.9.8. This installed itself under C:\Chocolatey\lib, but it didn't know about any of the previously-installed packages (they still showed up in OneGet's Get-Package, but not in choco list). Worse, the chocolatey install nuked all the shims other than the new choco.bat in C:\Chocolatey\bin, and after uninstalling the wonky Chocolatey package I now have an empty bin directory :(

[ferventcoder]

I'm not sure choco is the wonky one here. The chocolatey provider is still very much a preview from awhile ago. I would wait until there is an announcement that it is ready to go before attempting to use it.

[ferventcoder]

Choco 0.9.9.x+ will ensure that you are not using c:\chocolatey as it is world-writeable and very insecure. That is if the installer works appropriately.

[0xabu]

Rob Reynolds (@ferventcoder), I'm not trying to assign blame. I get that it's a preview, I just figured that others may run into the same problem -- it's very easy to install out of the box on Win10 ("Get-PackageProvider chocolatey" prompts you to do it) and there are a few blogs and howtos directing people to do just this. If this isn't the right place to report it, where is?

[ferventcoder]

This is fine.

[ferventcoder]

It may actually be better to report it over here - https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-oneget

[ferventcoder]

I know folks are blogging about it as well, which is not helpful when it is still the CTP from April 2014 that Garrett Serack (@fearthecowboy) put together. I think I'll probably just need to sit down with Garrett or somebody so we can get the updated version banged out and at least a newer CTP released.

[0xabu]

Now I'm confused about https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-oneget vs https://github.com/OneGet/ChocolateyProvider The code in the former looks stale compared to the latter (here). Are you sure you want the issues over there?

[ferventcoder]

You know, I don't know for sure. That's a great question for Joel Bennett (@Jaykul) and Garrett Serack (@fearthecowboy). I guess I'm not really sure where the development is going to.

[Jaykul]

I don't even ...

Whatever you do, don't file it against OneGet/ChocolateyProvider because even though it doesn't look like it ... that's really just Garrett Serack (@fearthecowboy)'s personal copy of my jaykul/ChocolateyProvider repo ... which should be the same as chocolatey/chocolatey-oneget ... don't ask me how we could ever get github to understand the truth 👀

Anyway, the code that actually got used is what's in OneGet/chocolateyprototype, I think -- but I think if there's a bug, it's the fact that the NewChocolatey installer nuked folders that already existed?

[ferventcoder]

Joel Bennett (@Jaykul) Hmmm :)

[ferventcoder]

Looks like you forked off of this repo, not the chocolatey/chocolatey-oneget repo. Probably where the confusion in github lies. :/

[Jaykul]

Well, I did technically fork his repo to get the "SDK" ... before you even knew there was a project ;-)

Then later you created a repo (not forked off either) which I just added as a remote. As far as I'm concerned, the real repo is on my dev box and all of these are just remotes I push to when things are happy :-P

[ferventcoder]

:)

[Jaykul]

But my point is that for the "new" provider, we need to treat chcolatey's copy as the official one. I could delete my repo and re-create it as a fork of yours if that would help ;)

But this bug isn't really in the provider, I don't think. The provider's just calling the installer..

[ferventcoder]

Agreed - the bug is really that the provider is using c:\chocolatey