Write-FileUpdateLog fails when the path is more than 260 characters

[lygstate]

Update: Chocolatey 0.9.10.0+ does not use Write-FileUpdateLog and this function has been deprecated.

When I install mongodb with:

choco install -y mongodb

The following error appeared

Get-ChildItem : The specified path, file name, or both are too long. The fully qualified file name must be less than 260 characters, and the director
y name must be less than 248 characters.
At C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\chocolateyinstall\helpers\functions\Write-FileUpdateLog.ps1:12 char:23

$originalContents = Get-ChildItem -Recurse $locationToMonitor | Select-Object 

CategoryInfo : ReadError: (C:\CI-Cor\kexin...modules\bl\test:String) [Get-ChildItem], PathTooLongException
FullyQualifiedErrorId : DirIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand

From #154

[ferventcoder]

Thanks for splitting that up! :)

[asgerhallas]

@ferventcoder do you know if mongodb will be correctly installed, regardless of this error?

[ferventcoder]

@asgerhallas That's a good question. I don't know that this is called anymore in choco 0.9.9+. If it is, I want to remove it completely.

For whether mondodb, I can't say. If there is an error, choco considers the install not successful, but the software may be successfully installed on the machine.

[asgerhallas]

@ferventcoder thank you for the reply! I'm running v0.9.9.11 so something seems to be called still... but I have not seen the message for other packages than mongodb, so far. I'm pretty new to chocolatey, but let me know if I can help with this issue in any way.

[ferventcoder]

I wonder if the package itself calls the function then?

[asgerhallas]

It does not look like it, but I'll try to run it again and see if I can get af stack trace.

[asgerhallas]

@ferventcoder it doesn't really output a proper stack trace, but further inspection leads me to Install-ChocolateyZipPackage that still calls Write-FileUpdateLog. And Install-ChocolateyZipPackage is actually called by the mongodb script. Is that considered a problem with the mongo-script or chocolatey?

[ferventcoder]

That would be Chocolatey. Thanks for tracing that.

[asgerhallas]

@ferventcoder My pleasure :) Let me know if there's anything else I can do to resolve the issue.

[ferventcoder]

For choco itself, this issue is fixed by no longer using this. Which was done as part of #616.

[ferventcoder]

Deprioritizing from 0.9.10 and moved the priority to low as the Choco helpers no longer use this helper. We should move it to deprecated and remove it by v1.

[Roksolanaa]

Long Path Tool help me a lot when i have an issue like file deleting or renaming the file. Also good to use if file name and file extension is too long.

[AdmiringWorm]

Since the cmdlet Write-FileUpdateLog is deprecated and will be removed as part of the next release of Chocolatey, this problem will not be fixed, unfortunately. As such I will be closing this issue now.

Please see #2469 to track which cmdlets will be removed in the next version of Chocolatey.