[chef] Re: Windows system standard program for unzip-ing archives?

["Dylan K. Grafmyre" < >]

Use the DSC Archive. However, You need Powershell 4.0 installed on the boxes to use the dsc_script resource which will work on 2008/2012

The last example shows the code for using Archive via dsc_script. https://docs.getchef.com/resource_dsc_script.html

You will need another option for Windows 2003 servers.

Aloha,

Dylan

On Nov 20, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Bradford L Knowles < " class=""> > wrote:

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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