libarchive-cookbook

Resources for extracting archives of all types with Chef

Deprecated

The archive_file resource is now built into Chef Infra Client 15+ so this cookbook is no longer necessary.

Requirements

• Chef >= 14.0

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu / Debian
• RHEL / Amazon / Fedora
• SLES / openSUSE
• Windows

Usage

archive_file "my_archive.tar.gz" do
  path "/path/to/artifact/my_archive.tar.gz"
  destination "/path/to/extraction"
  owner "reset"
  group "reset"

  action :extract
end

archive_file Resource

Actions

• extract - extracts the contents of the archive to the destination on disk. (default)

Properties

• path - filepath to the archive to extract (name attribute)
• owner - set the owner of the extracted files
• group - set the group of the extracted files
• mode - set the mode of the extracted files
• destination - filepath to extract the contents of the archive to
• options - an array of symbols representing extraction flags. See extract options below.

Extract Options

• :no_overwrite - don't overwrite files if they already exist

License and Authors

• Author:: Jamie Winsor (jamie@vialstudios.com)
• Author:: Tim Smith (tsmith@chef.io)
• Author:: John Bellone (jbellone@bloomberg.net)
• Author:: Jennifer Davis (sigje@chef.io)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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