Hi Rob, thanks for your answer. I tried chocolatey as it seems to be the easiest solution and very useful for other packages on windows, too. Chocolatey worked, but I hadn't time so far to take a look into how it handle this specific case. Thanks for the tip.
Kind regards. On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 10:45:26 PM UTC+1, Rob Reynolds wrote: > > I'm not sure we have a workaround for this at the current time. I know in > 3.5.0 we have made some improvements in puppet resource package. You might > give the RC a try. > > If that doesn't work, please file an issue on this. > > As a current workaround for using the windows package resource, have you > looked at chocolatey package resource? > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:25 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm currently trying to install Skype's MSI using puppet. >> The name of the package returned by 'puppet resource package' is "SkypeT >> 6.14". >> The correct one would be "Skype™ 6.14". >> >> However, puppet fails to handle both: >> If specified with the trademark sign, I get an "invalid byte sequence in >> US-ASCII" error. >> If specified following the return value if the puppet resource, it also >> tries to install it again (as it does not match the windows package name). >> >> It seems that puppet has a general problem with utf-8 characters or other >> special signs like umlauts [1],[2] which had not been fixed yet. >> But I wasn't able to find a workaround/solution for this kind of problem. >> >> Software in use: >> Puppet Client: v3.4.3 on Windows 7 Professional (German language) >> Puppet Master: v3.4.3 on Debian 7 >> >> Anyone has an idea? >> Thanks in advance. >> >> [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/49ovbwcC7vs >> [2] https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1225 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/91b2a79c-d7e2-4286-a267-00cfa2af11d6%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/91b2a79c-d7e2-4286-a267-00cfa2af11d6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Rob Reynolds > Developer, Puppet Labs > > *Join us at PuppetConf 2014, September 23-24 in San Francisco - * > http://bit.ly/pupconf14 > Register now and save $350! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/e3ed55ff-1294-43af-8dd4-c683c60d5075%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
