Hi brad, I'm on the way to the office holiday party but .net most likely has an archive class to handle zip, and powershell can use .net classes. I could swear chefs windows client handles zip via a ruby gem though.. Maybe its in the windows or artifact cookbook. I unzip quite a few things myself on windows with chef.
-Greg
Folks,
So, I've been trying to write some cross-platform Chef code for a customer, and one of the things we need to do is to take a zip archive of a package written in Java, and deploy that. The zip archive is completely self-contained, we don't need to install it as an OS-level package or anything -- we just need to un-zip it into an appropriate directory structure, and then run the appropriate included .sh or .BAT files.
This worked fine on RHEL5. But I was astonished to find that there is apparently no standard tool to handle this kind of thing on Win2k3 or Win2k8.
Am I missing something obvious here? I mean, I can install a package easily enough, but this is a ... sensitive ... customer, and there might have to be a lengthy delay in getting that approved through the change control board.
Any and all ideas or thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
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