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

[Mike < >]

Have you looked at the 'ark' cookbook? It manages archives.
http://ckbk.it/ark

It may do what you want, and uses `Dir.mktmpdir`.
https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/ark/blob/master/libraries/provider_ark.rb#L235

-Mike

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Michael Stillwell 
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 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