tas50 / seven_zip-1

7-zip Chef Cookbook

seven_zip Cookbook

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. This cookbook installs the full 7-zip suite of tools (GUI and CLI). This cookbook replaces the older 7-zip cookbook.

Requirements

Platforms

• Windows XP
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
• Windows 8, 8.1
• Windows 10
• Windows Server 2003 R2
• Windows Server 2008 (R1, R2)
• Windows Server 2012 (R1, R2)

Chef

• Chef >= 11.6

Cookbooks

• windows

Attributes

Optional

Key	Type	Description	Default
['seven_zip']['home']	String	7-Zip installation directory.
['seven_zip']['syspath']	Boolean	If true, adds 7-zip directory to system PATH environment variable.
['seven_zip']['default_extract_timeout']	Integer	The default timeout for an extract operation in seconds. This can be overridden by a resource attribute.	600

Usage

default

Add seven_zip::default to your run_list which will download and install 7-zip for the current Windows platform.

Resource/Provider

seven_zip_archive

Extracts a 7-zip compatible archive (iso, zip, 7z etc) to the specified destination directory.

Actions

• :extract - Extract a 7-zip compatible archive

Attribute Parameters

• path - Name attribute. The destination to extract to.
• source - The file path to the archive to extract.
• overwrite - Defaults to false. If true, the destination files will be overwritten.
• checksum - The archive file checksum.
• timeout - The extract action timeout in seconds, defaults to node['seven_zip']['default_extract_timeout'].

Examples

Extract 7-zip source files to C:\seven_zip_source.

seven_zip_archive 'seven_zip_source' do
  path      'C:\seven_zip_source'
  source    'http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1514-src.7z'
  overwrite true
  checksum  '3713aed72728eae8f6649e4803eba0b3676785200c76df6269034c520df4bbd5'
  timeout   30
end

Recipes

default

Installs 7-zip and adds it to your system PATH.

License & Authors

• Author:: Seth Chisamore ([email protected])
• Author:: Shawn Neal ([email protected])

Copyright:: 2011-2016, Chef Software, Inc.

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