Package not reporting correctly when interrupted during installation

[DamianBis]

What You Are Seeing?

When something interrupts chocolatey install. Say a computer is rebooted during the install of firefox. Chocolatey thinks that the application is installed and if you run a choco list -lo it will show up as installed. But the MSI has actually failed to install.. In order to install again you either need

1. a new version to be detected or
2. run with --force

What is Expected?

Some sort of checks (even if this has to be done in the package) to do a confirmation of successful installation.

How Did You Get This To Happen? (Steps to Reproduce)

choco install (any package really) and remove power during the installation. i believe other things can cause it but this is one thing i know causes issues.

Use Case this effects:

We use chocolatey with our private repo to install software via group policy scripts. sometimes these scripts get interrupted as they're running in the background without users being aware. Our scripts don't install with --force (as they would be installing every time the script runs) so it requires manual intervention

[ferventcoder]

Duplicate of #198. Already fixed in 0.9.10 (will be in next beta release).

[ferventcoder]

I take it back - it's in the current beta - 0.9.10-beta-20160531 - so you can run choco upgrade chocolatey -pre and take advantage of the fix now.

[DamianBis]

Perfect i've just installed the beta and it works. any idea on timeline before beta becomes production?

[ferventcoder]

Real Soon Now - https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A0.9.10

[adielzakaria]

the same/similar issue is present in chocolately 1.10 when upgrading packages and the process is interrupted . in my case
cup all -y ,considered a package as updated (docker desktop 4.7 to 4.8.1) although the update has actually failed to download/install due to interruption of PowerShell

steps to reproduce :
run cup package and quit PowerShell after the approval message and the start of the download

[romain-marie]

Hello, same problem for me. If installation of a package is interrupted during download or while installer is running, chocolatey says package is installed. Chocolatey v1.1.0