'gem list --remote' does not respect proxy settings

[karolisc]

Hi,

I am behind proxy. I have set proxy setting in sensu class
gem_install_options => [{ '--http-proxy' => 'http://1.1.1.1:2222' }]

all puppet runs takes very long time
Notice: Finished catalog run in 155.74 seconds

it looks like it does not pass install_options to the package correctly
as it stuck at /usr/bin/gem list --remote ^sensu-plugin$ until it time outs

manual run:

time /usr/bin/gem list --remote ^sensu-plugin$ --debug -V
Exception `NameError' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/command_manager.rb:177 - uninitialized constant Gem::Commands::ListCommand

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

Exception `Errno::ETIMEDOUT' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:762 - Connection timed out - connect(2)
Exception `Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError' at /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/remote_fetcher.rb:246 - Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Connection timed out - connect(2) (http://rubygems.org/latest_specs.4.8.gz)
sensu-plugin (1.2.0)

real    2m7.807s
user    0m0.504s
sys     0m0.056s

time /usr/bin/gem list --remote ^sensu-plugin$ --http-proxy http://1.1.1.1:2222

*** REMOTE GEMS ***

sensu-plugin (1.2.0)

real    0m1.547s
user    0m0.467s
sys     0m0.071s

Setting global proxy settings kinda "solves" the problem but I need it to be managed through module itself.

/etc/environment
 export http_proxy=http://1.1.1.1:2222

Karolis

[jlambert121]

Would you be able to take a stab at a PR for this? I don't have a proxy server to test this with.

[jaxxstorm]

@karolisc the local sensu gem provider uses the gem provider as its parent:

Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide :sensu_gem, :parent => :gem do

We also explicitly take the install options parameters:

has_feature :versionable, :install_options

Now your issue seems to be with the actual gem list command. We use the upstream gem provider here:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/package/gem.rb

And as far as I can tell, there's no ability to pass options to gem list:

 def self.gemlist(options)
    gem_list_command = [command(:gemcmd), "list"]

    if options[:local]
      gem_list_command << "--local"
    else
      gem_list_command << "--remote"
    end
    if options[:source]
      gem_list_command << "--source" << options[:source]
    end
    if name = options[:justme]
      gem_list_command << "^" + name + "$"
    end

    begin
      list = execute(gem_list_command).lines.
        map {|set| gemsplit(set) }.
        reject {|x| x.nil? }
    rescue Puppet::ExecutionFailure => detail
      raise Puppet::Error, "Could not list gems: #{detail}", detail.backtrace
    end

Adding this as part of the module seems out of scope for this particularly provider - I expect you'll have the same issues with the standard puppet provider as well? I'm going to close this, as I think it's a problem with the original puppet provider, not with the sensu gem one.

Please reopen if you think I'm in error.