[chef] Unpacking and installing from archives, tarballs, and zipfiles with the Ark resource

[Bryan Berry < >]

You can find the full blog post here http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com/2012/03/managing-archives-with-ark-resource.html

Here is my resource for unpacking and installing from archives, the ark resource

replace this ugly mess

# download the file
remote_file "Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]/jdk-7.2.tar.gz" do
  url 'http://download.oracle.com/jdk-7u2-linux-x64.tar.gz'
  checksum   '89ba5fde0c596db388c3bbd265b63007a9cc3df3a8e6d79a46780c1a39408cb5'
end 


# unpack it

bash "unpack java" do

   code <<-EOS

   tar xzf #{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]/jdk-7.2.tar.gz} --strip-components=1 -C /usr/local/jdk-7.2

   EOS

end


# indicate that this is the latest jdk
# yeah, I install multiple jdk's on a single machine for some apps which require the i386 arch
link "/usr/local/jvm" do
   to "/usr/local/jdk-7.2"
end


# put the java command in the PATH

link "/usr/local/jvm/bin/java" do

   to "/usr/local/bin/java"

end



with this


ark 'jdk' do                                                                                                        url 'http://download.oracle.com/jdk-7u2-linux-x64.tar.gz'                                                         version '7.2'                                                                                                     checksum  '89ba5fde0c596db388c3bbd265b63007a9cc3df3a8e6d79a46780c1a39408cb5'                                      has_binaries [ 'bin/java', 'bin/javac', 'bin/javaws' ]
end     


you can find it on github.com at 
https://github.com/bryanwb/chef-ark