Can't use remote cookbooks.tar.gz with chef-solo on windows about chef

[sersut]

For this I think we need to make a fix similar to #1565 in https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/application/solo.rb#L205.

Also maybe we should consider run_command -> shell_out conversion in Chef 12. Any concerns with that @danielsdeleo?

[danielsdeleo]

converting to shell out is always good, provided we verify the behavior manually or with non-stubbed tests.

[adamhjk]

Looking into this now.

[adamhjk]

So, easy enough to fix the path problems, and flip this over to shell out. The real issue is the feature working at all on an un-modified Windows system. Even if you get this, you aren't going to wind up being able to untar without adding something to the machine that responds to 'tar zxvf'.

Would we rather add smarts to try tar and if it fails try 7-zip, and if that fails, die?

[sersut]

We actually do ship a tar.exe with Chef Client and Chef DK so I don't think we need the backup plan:

C:\Users\Administrator>dir c:\opscode\chefdk\bin\tar.exe
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 46B7-7CAF

 Directory of c:\opscode\chefdk\bin

07/11/2014  11:29 PM            73,728 tar.exe
               1 File(s)         73,728 bytes
               0 Dir(s)  254,454,628,352 bytes free

[adamhjk]

Dope. Patch incoming.

[coderanger]

#1751 is the PR for the future.