extract_local without creates does nothing

[habelson]

Cookbook version

2.2.0

Chef-client version

12.14.60

Platform Details

Amazon Linux 2018.03 - AWS

Scenario:

I would like to use extract_local to extract a tarball without the "creates" property. Since the tar cookbook does not yet support true idempotence for extracted resources, In my particular case, I wish the extract to occur with every run. This way if the source tarball is changed, the new resources will be unpacked. However, omitting the 'creates' property causes the extract_local action to do nothing.

Steps to Reproduce:

Have a tar.gz file on the local filesystem, i.e. /tmp/test/tar/gz
use the tar_extract resource with the extract_local action, without a creates property

Expected Result:

tar_extract executed the extraction on every chef run

Actual Result:

tar_extract does nothing

[gr33ngiant112]

Anyone find a workaround on this?

[ericsnap]

@gr33ngiant112 the way I work around it is to simply have a create property of something I know for sure is not in the package (like a ignore_me file or something). That way, the test always fails and the archive is always exploded.

[gr33ngiant112]

ah..gotcha. I just figured it out, same solution you had. Thanks!