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

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Nov 21, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Julian C. Dunn 
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> Actually, it uses the 'zip' Rubygem, not 7-zip, so if you're cool with
> getting a gem "approved" then that's a pretty lightweight way of
> solving this problem.

Yeah, I don't think we have a problem with rubygems.  I had already used the 
scp ruby gem so that I could download certain binary files from an existing 
central server, instead of having to stand up a separate http or http server 
for the repo, and having to get approval for new holes being punched in 
firewalls, etc....

So, this is the method I've chosen to go with, at least for the moment.


My next trick is that Java isn't pre-installed on all these machines, so now 
I need to handle that situation as well.  And I can't use the standard 
windows_package resource (at least, not easily), because I need to handle the 
case where a different version of Java may already be installed.

So, we're getting a copy of the Java installation package put up on the 
central server into the "binary files repo", where we can scp it down to the 
Windows machines that need it and then install the package in a separate 
location.


When it rains, it pours -- eh?  ;-)

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