How to format chocolatey params in puppet manifest

Question

The following choco install command works fine:

choco Install 'InstallTest' -y --source 'C:\installtest' --params="'/serverinstance:MyServer /buildtype:OTP'"

I now have the following, in a Puppet manifest:

package { 'InstallTest':
  ensure            => installed,
  install_options   => ['-params','"', /serverinstance:MyServer, /buildtype:OTP, '"'],
  source            => 'c:\installtest',
}

I thought that I was correctly covering spaces with commas, etc, but puppet parser throws the following error:

puppet : [1;31mError: Could not parse for environment production: invalid byte sequence in UTF-8[0m

Without the install_options line, it compiles fine.

What should the correct syntax be?

John Bollinger · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-17T22:25:23.103

The problem is here:

  install_options   => ['-params','"', /serverinstance:MyServer, /buildtype:OTP, '"'],

Although Puppet can accept bare words as strings, there are limitations on the content of such strings. The one relevant here is that they must

Begin with a lower case letter, and contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

Thus, you're looking for this:

  install_options   => ['-params', '"', '/serverinstance:MyServer', '/buildtype:OTP', '"'],

Overall, its better style to quote substantially all strings, whether they need it or not. That's clearer, and it will keep you out of trouble.

How to format chocolatey params in puppet manifest

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