Module: unarchive

Welcome to the unarchive module community

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