Module: unarchive

Welcome to the unarchive module community page

This space is to collaborate on the Ansible unarchive module. Feel free to add ideas or help out where you can.

Known issues

• The module is running unzip and gtar underneath
  • We are scraping the output of both tools, which is error-prone
  • BSD does not offer an equivalent unzip version, and ships bsdtar and not gtar by default
  • Module parameters do not always offer the same functionality to both tools
  • Very sensitive with UTF-8 and other charsets, sensitive to languages (so we baiscally force en_US.UTF8)
  • Idempotency is a huge problem as we are depending on the tool's output
• The module offers download functionality
  • But everyone has different needs for downloading stuff (proxy, authentication, headers, ...)
  • Ansible has specialized functionality for downloading files (get_url, uri), we don't want unarchive to become a specialized download module of its own
  • Actually we prefer that this functionality gets deprecated altogether