libarchive-cookbook

A library cookbook that provides LWRPs for extracting archive files

Requirements

• Chef ~> 12.1

Supported Platforms

• Ubuntu
• Arch Linux

Usage

include_recipe "libarchive::default"

libarchive_file "my_archive.tar.gz" do
  path "/path/to/artifact/my_archive.tar.gz"
  extract_to "/path/to/extraction"
  owner "reset"
  group "reset"

  action :extract
end

Recipes

libarchive::default

Include this recipe before leveraging any of the LWRPs provided by this cookbook. It will install the necessary libarchive packages on your node and the necessary libarchive rubygem as a chef_gem.

libarchive_file Resource/Provider

Actions

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

Paramter Attributes

• 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
• extract_to - filepath to extract the contents of the archive to
• extract_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 ([email protected])