[chef] Re: Temp directory for use with script resources?

["Nguyen, Dang" < >]

Check out the Dir ruby class. It has a ::tmpdir method that returns the operating system's temporary file path. Also ::mktmpdir will create a subdirectory under ::tmpdir for you.

--Dang Nguyen

On 8/28/12 10:39 AM, "Michael Stillwell" < "> > wrote:

Quite a few of my more ad hoc recipes involve downloading a *.tar.gz

from some location (or via cookbook_file), and then performing some

random operation on it.  (Like uncompressing it and copying part of it

to another location, or installing via ./configure && make && make

install.)

Is there a recommended directory to perform these activities?

Sometimes I use /tmp, and sometimes Chef::Config[:file_cache_path],

but I'm not that happy with either...

Ideally, some directory would be provided that's guaranteed to exist,

be writable, and empty, and that is cleaned if the recipe completes

successfully, but left alone if not.

Michael