Compliance Profile inheritence does not work with audit cookbook

[yvovandoorn]

Cookbook version

0.6.0

Chef-client version

12.9.41

Platform Details

RHEL 7.2

Scenario:

Attempting to run an audit profile that inherits another profile on the compliance server

Steps to Reproduce:

Run the audit cookbook with a compliance policy that is inherited

Expected Result:

Audit cookbook passes

Actual Result:

* compliance_profile[cis-rhel7-level1-lite] action execute * chef_gem[inspec] action install (up to date) [2016-05-04T11:33:00-04:00] WARN: Using inspec version: (0.20.1) - install/update inspec ================================================================================ Error executing actionexecute` on resource 'compliance_profile[cis-rhel7-level1-lite]'
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RuntimeError
------------
You must supply a --profiles-path to inherit from other profiles.

Cookbook Trace:
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/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/audit/libraries/profile.rb:111:in `block (2 levels) in <class:ComplianceProfile>'
/var/chef/cache/cookbooks/audit/libraries/profile.rb:94:in `block in <class:ComplianceProfile>'

Resource Declaration:
---------------------
# In /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/audit/recipes/default.rb

 30:   compliance_profile p do
 31:     owner o
 32:     server server
 33:     token token
 34:     inspec_version node['audit']['inspec_version']
 35:     action [:fetch, :execute]
 36:   end
 37: end

Compiled Resource:
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# Declared in /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/audit/recipes/default.rb:30:in `block in from_file'

compliance_profile("cis-rhel7-level1-lite") do
  action [:fetch, :execute]
  updated true
  retries 0
  retry_delay 2
  default_guard_interpreter :default
  declared_type :compliance_profile
  cookbook_name "audit"
  recipe_name "default"
  owner "thomasrgcheforg"
  inspec_version "latest"
  profile "cis-rhel7-level1-lite"
end

Platform:
---------
x86_64-linux

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[chris-rock]

related to inspec/inspec#533

[jerryaldrichiii]

+1 to this bug.

Profile inheritance works if using the Compliance WebUI (SSH) to perform the scan but not when using chef-client and this cookbook.

[chris-rock]

This should be fixed with 3.1. Please re-open if this continues to be an issue.