libarchive's Introduction

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 ([email protected])
Author:: Tim Smith ([email protected])
Author:: John Bellone ([email protected])
Author:: Jennifer Davis ([email protected])

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
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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