[chef] Re: Best way to install from tarballs??

[Zac Stevens < >]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Van Fossan,Randy 
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> How is the best way to handle installations from tarballs?  Currently, we
> have several tarballs that we use to deploy software.  These tarballs are
> just extracted to the correct directory and the software is installed.

We started out with a "tar_package" LWRP, similar to the approach
mentioned by the other replies on this thread, but now use FPM[1] to
create RPMs of the file we previously shipped in a tarball.  The
tarballs we're concerned with are updated very infrequently, so the
extra step of building the RPM isn't a problem for us.


Zac

[1]: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm