Error when installing

[scottcarter87]

I am having trouble getting this installed on a ubuntu 14.04 system. I keep getting the following error.

opt/go/src/github.com/iancmcc/packer-post-processor-ovftool/ovftool/post-processor.go:21: undefined: packer.ConfigTemplate

I have tried Packer versions 0.5.1, 0.6.1, and 0.7.5 and I keep getting the same error. I have also tried golang 1.2.1, 1.3, and 1.4 and also get the same error. Not sure how to work around this.

[RBeaudoin]

Same issue here, @scottcarter87 have you figured this out?

Same issue. Any luck? @scottcarter87 @RBeaudoin

[scottcarter87]

I did not have any luck getting this to work. It can be tracked back to a change to packer itself which broke this post-processor. I also tried another ovftool post processor which is maintained by an engineer that works at VMware and that has the exact same problem. Since I was invoking packer from ant I worked around this issue by creating another ant target to take the ovf output that packer spits out already when using the vmware-vmx provider and used tar to bundle it all into a ova. Not ideal but it works.

I wonder why no one has opened a bug against packer, since it is happening across multiple plugins. Seems like upstream should not break existing plugins...

[gawbul]

Looks like its due to a change to a new packer API? Code here needs modifying to work with the changes to the packer code. Packer is pre-v1 release, so you should expect changes that may break compatibility between releases.

[gawbul]

Looks like this supports v0.8 packer API https://github.com/amitinfo2k/packer-post-processor-ovftool? Thought not sure its fully developed yet? @amitinfo2k

[amitinfo2k]

@gawbul It's complete need to update the installation instructions will be updating asap. for now if you know the packer plugin development u can copy the files manually and build it.