$env:Path not refreshed from prior actions?

[bdruth]

I have a fairly simple manifest using chocolatey/chocolatey and puppetlabs/powershell - when I install a component that updates the Machine Path (i.e. [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine")), and subsequently issue an Exec which depends on that, it fails because Powershell doesn't see the updated Path.

I've tried setting path => $::path, path => $([System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","Machine") + ";" + [System.Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("Path","User")) and various other permutations to try to force an up-to-date Path being used, to no avail.

Any magic to make this work? Thanks!

[ferventcoder]

I don't believe path can run arbitrary PowerShell, which might be why it doesn't work as you might expect.

[bdruth]

😞 chocolatey-archive/puppet-chocolatey#63

[ferventcoder]

One thing we might do is add code to Puppet that will refresh the path values. I created https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-4708 to follow up.