This cookbook provides ark, a resource for managing software archives. It manages the fetch-unpack-configure-build-install process common to installing software from source, or from binary distributions that are not fully fledged OS packages.

This cookbook started its life as a modified version of Infochimp's install_from cookbook. It has since been heavily refactored and extended to meet different use cases.

Given a simple project archive available at a url:

ark 'pig' do
  url 'http://apache.org/pig/pig-0.8.0.tar.gz'
end

The ark resource will:

• fetch it to to /var/cache/chef/
• unpack it to the default path (/usr/local/pig-0.8.0)
• create a symlink for :home_dir (/usr/local/pig) pointing to path
• add specified binary commands to the environment PATH variable

By default, the ark will not run again if the :path is not empty. Ark provides many actions to accommodate different use cases, such as :dump, :cherry_pick, :put, and :install_with_make.

For remote files ark supports URLs using the remote_file resource. Local files are accessed with the file:// syntax.

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• Debian/Ubuntu
• RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Oracle
• Fedora
• FreeBSD
• SmartOS
• macOS
• openSUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprises
• Windows

Should work on common Unix/Linux systems with typical userland utilities like tar, gzip, etc. May require the installation of build tools for compiling from source, but that installation is outside the scope of this cookbook.

• Chef 15.3+

• seven_zip

Customize the attributes to suit site specific conventions and defaults.

• node['ark']['apache_mirror'] - if the URL is an apache mirror, use the attribute as the default. default: http://apache.mirrors.tds.net
• node['ark']['prefix_root'] - default base location if the prefix_root is not passed into the resource. default: /usr/local
• node['ark']['prefix_bin'] - default binary location if the prefix_bin is not passed into the resource. default: /usr/local/bin
• node['ark']['prefix_home'] - default home location if the prefix_home is not passed into the resource. default: /usr/local
• node['ark']['package_dependencies'] - prerequisite system packages that need to be installed to support ark. default: varies based on platform
• node['ark']['tar'] - allows overriding the default path to the tar binary, which varies based on platform
• node['ark']['sevenzip_binary'] - allows overriding the default path to the 7zip binary, which is determined based on registry key value

• ark - does the extract/build/configure

• :install: extracts the file and creates a 'friendly' symbolic link to the extracted directory path
• :configure: configure ahead of the install action
• :install_with_make: extracts the archive to a path, runs configure, make, and make install.
• :dump: strips all directories from the archive and dumps the contained files into a specified path
• :cherry_pick: extract a specified file from an archive and places in specified path
• :put: extract the archive to a specified path, does not create any symbolic links
• :remove: removes the extracted directory and related symlink #TODO
• :setup_py: runs the command "python setup.py" in the extracted directory
• :setup_py_build: runs the command "python setup.py build" in the extracted directory
• :setup_py_install: runs the command "python setup.py install" in the extracted directory

Extract a specified file from an archive and places in specified path.

• path: directory to place file in.
• creates: specific file to cherry-pick.

Strips all directories from the archive and dumps the contained files into a specified path.

NOTE: This currently only works for zip archives

• path: path to dump files to.

• mode: file mode for app_home, as an integer.

  • Example: 0775

• creates: if you are appending files to a given directory, ark needs a condition to test whether the file has already been extracted. You can specify with creates, a file whose existence indicates the ark has previously been extracted and does not need to be extracted again.

Extract the archive to a specified path, does not create any symbolic links.

• path: path to extract to.

  • Default: /usr/local

• append_env_path: boolean, if true, append the ./bin directory of the extracted directory to the global PATH variable for all users.

• name: name of the package, defaults to the resource name.

• url: url for tarball, .tar.gz, .bin (oracle-specific), .war, and .zip currently supported. Also supports special syntax

• :name:version:apache_mirror: that will auto-magically construct download url from the apache mirrors site.

• version: software version, defaults to 1.

• mode: file mode for app_home, is an integer.

• prefix_root: default prefix_root, for use with :install* actions.

• prefix_home: default directory prefix for a friendly symlink to the path.

  • Example: /usr/local/maven -> /usr/local/maven-2.2.1

• prefix_bin: default directory to place a symlink to a binary command.

  • Example: /opt/bin/mvn -> /opt/maven-2.2.1/bin/mvn, where the prefix_bin is /opt/bin

• path: path to extract the ark to. The :install* actions overwrite any user-provided values for :path.

  • Default: /usr/local/<name>-<version> for the :install, :install_with_make actions

• home_dir: symbolic link to the path :prefix_root/:name-:version, does not apply to :dump, :put, or :cherry_pick actions.

  • Default: :prefix_root/:name

• has_binaries: array of binary commands to symlink into /usr/local/bin/, you must specify the relative path.

  • Example: [ 'bin/java', 'bin/javaws' ]

• append_env_path: boolean, similar to has_binaries but less granular. If true, append the ./bin directory of the extracted directory to. the PATH environment variable for all users, by placing a file in /etc/profile.d/. The commands are symbolically linked into /usr/bin/*. This option provides more granularity than the boolean option.

  • Example: mvn, java, javac, etc.

• environment: hash of environment variables to pass to invoked shell commands like tar, unzip, configure, and make.

• strip_components: number of components in path to strip when extracting archive. With default value of 1, ark strips the leading directory from an archive, which is the default for both unzip and tar commands.

• autoconf_opts: an array of command line options for use with the GNU autoconf script.

  • Example: [ '--include=/opt/local/include', '--force' ]

• make_opts: an array of command line options for use with make.

  • Example: [ '--warn-undefined-variables', '--load-average=2' ]

• owner: owner of extracted directory.

  • Default: root

• group: group of extracted directory.

  • Default: root

• backup: The number of backups to be kept in /var/chef/backup (for UNIX- and Linux-based platforms) or C:/chef/backup (for the Microsoft Windows platform). Set to false to prevent backups from being kept.

  • Default: 5

This example copies ivy.tar.gz to /var/cache/chef/ivy-2.2.0.tar.gz, unpacks its contents to /usr/local/ivy-2.2.0/ -- stripping the leading directory, and symlinks /usr/local/ivy to /usr/local/ivy-2.2.0

 # install Apache Ivy dependency resolution tool
 ark "ivy" do
   url 'http://someurl.example.com/ivy.tar.gz'
   version '2.2.0'
   checksum '89ba5fde0c596db388c3bbd265b63007a9cc3df3a8e6d79a46780c1a39408cb5'
   action :install
 end

This example copies jdk-7u2-linux-x64.tar.gz to /var/cache/chef/jdk-7.2.tar.gz, unpacks its contents to /usr/local/jvm/jdk-7.2/ -- stripping the leading directory, symlinks /usr/local/jvm/default to /usr/local/jvm/jdk-7.2, and adds /usr/local/jvm/jdk-7.2/bin/ to the global PATH for all users. The user 'foobar' is the owner of the /usr/local/jvm/jdk-7.2 directory:

 ark 'jdk' do
   url 'http://download.example.com/jdk-7u2-linux-x64.tar.gz'
   version '7.2'
   path "/usr/local/jvm/"
   home_dir "/usr/local/jvm/default"
   checksum  '89ba5fde0c596db388c3bbd265b63007a9cc3df3a8e6d79a46780c1a39408cb5'
   append_env_path true
   owner 'foobar'
 end

Install Apache Ivy dependency resolution tool in /resource_name in this case /usr/local/ivy, do not symlink, and strip any leading directory if one exists in the tarball:

 ark "ivy" do
    url 'http://someurl.example.com/ivy.tar.gz'
    checksum '89ba5fde0c596db388c3bbd265b63007a9cc3df3a8e6d79a46780c1a39408cb5'
    action :put
 end

Install Apache Ivy dependency resolution tool in /home/foobar/ivy, strip any leading directory if one exists, don't keep backup copies of ivy.tar.gz:

 ark "ivy" do
   path "/home/foobar"
   url 'http://someurl.example.com/ivy.tar.gz'
   checksum '89ba5fde0c596db388c3bbd265b63007a9cc3df3a8e6d79a46780c1a39408cb5'
   action :put
   backup false
 end

Strip all directories and dump files into path specified by the path attribute. You must specify the creates attribute in order to keep the extraction from running every time. The directory path will be created if it doesn't already exist:

 ark "my_jars" do
   url  "http://example.com/bunch_of_jars.zip"
   path "/usr/local/tomcat/lib"
   creates "mysql.jar"
   owner "tomcat"
   action :dump
 end

Extract specific files from a tarball (currently only handles one named file):

 ark 'mysql-connector-java' do
   url 'http://oracle.com/mysql-connector.zip'
   creates 'mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar'
   path '/usr/local/tomcat/lib'
   action :cherry_pick
 end

Build and install haproxy and use alternative values for prefix_root, prefix_home, and prefix_bin:

 ark "haproxy" do
   url  "http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/src/snapshot/haproxy-ss-20120403.tar.gz"
   version "1.5"
   checksum 'ba0424bf7d23b3a607ee24bbb855bb0ea347d7ffde0bec0cb12a89623cbaf911'
   make_opts [ 'TARGET=linux26' ]
   prefix_root '/opt'
   prefix_home '/opt'
   prefix_bin  '/opt/bin'
   action :install_with_make
 end

You can also supply the file extension in case the file extension can not be determined by the URL:

 ark "test_autogen" do
   url 'https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/tarball/master'
   extension "tar.gz"
   action :install_with_make
 end

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