Fetch

This cookbook was written primarily to automate several steps I often have to do in recipes:

• Fetch some archive
• Extract it somewhere
• Symlink it elsewhere

All these steps are wrapped in a neat LWRP.

Supports

Possible archive_type:

• gzip (tar.gz)
• war
• zip

It's also possible to fetch only a file without extracting it or symlinking it.

Usage

fetch_www 'smokeping-2.6.9.tar.gz' do
  base_url 'http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub'
  extract_to '/usr/share'
  symlink_to '/usr/share/smokeping'
end

fetch_www 'nexus-2.8.0.war' do
  base_url 'http://www.sonatype.org/downloads/'
  archive_type 'war'
  extract_to '/tmp/nexus'
  symlink_to '/tmp/nexus-test'
end

fetch_www 'ssoAdminTools_10.0.0.zip' do
  base_url 'http://download.forgerock.org/downloads/openam/openam10/10.0.0/'
  archive_type 'zip'
  extract_to '/tmp/ssoadmin'
  symlink_to '/tmp/ssoadmin-test'
end

LWRP options

• base_url: where to get the archive file
• archive_type: gzip or war
• download_to: By default, to Chef's temp download directory. Can be changed to wherever.
• extract: defaults to true
• extract_to: where to unpack the archive
• symlink: defaults to true
• symlink_to: where to symlink it

Contributing

1. Fork the repository on Github
2. Create a named feature branch (like add_component_x)
3. Write you change
4. Write tests for your change (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors

Authors: Jean-Francois Theroux [email protected]

License: Apache version 2