mixlib-versioning gem not found to airgapped systems

[JackChance]

Found this issue while trying to install a private supermarket with supermarket-omnibus-cookbook.

In chef-ingredient/libraries/helpers.rb is the code

69    def ensure_mixlib_versioning_gem_installed!
70      node.run_state[:mixlib_versioning_gem_installed] ||= begin # ~FC001
71        install_gem_from_rubygems('mixlib-versioning', '1.1.0')
72
73        require 'mixlib/versioning'
74        true
75      end

I've noticed in my own recipes that if the version you specify with a gem is the latest version it will fail to find it on rubygems.org.

Only reason I haven't done a pull request myself is because I'm unsure of how to lock to version 1.1.0 when it's the latest version of the gem.

[pjelou]

This also creates a problem using this(and many ones that depend on this) in closed(no internet access) environment.

[OxHobbs]

Did you have some kind of workaround for air-gapped systems @paveljeloudovski? I am running into the same issues with an air-gapped environment. I am trying to determine the most practical path forward for resolving or working around the hard coded GitHub URL and rubygems URL.

[pjelou]

Yes.
I'll have to check exactly what I did when at work.
In general.
What we have is a local ruby gems repo based on artifactory(but it was just a web server before) and there is a cookbook that we run on all servers that configures the ruby to work with repo at compile time.
So all the gems are installed from there. I can share the code for that if you need.
I'll have to check if this is what solved this issue or I had to do something more.

[pjelou]

This what we use to setup the gems repo
https://github.com/paveljeloudovski/random/blob/master/gemconf.rb