Merge pull request #12559 from chef/lcg/17-backport-12552

(Backport) Eager load ffi-libarchive to resolve centos-7 failures

lib/chef/resource/archive_file.rb

@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
 
 require_relative "../resource"
 require "fileutils" unless defined?(FileUtils)
+begin
+  # ffi-libarchive must be eager loaded see: https://github.com/chef/chef/issues/12228
+  require "ffi-libarchive" unless defined?(Archive::Reader)
+rescue LoadError
+  STDERR.puts "ffi-libarchive could not be loaded, libarchive is probably not installed on system, archive_file will not be available"
+end
 
 class Chef
   class Resource
@@ -92,8 +98,6 @@ class ArchiveFile < Chef::Resource
 
       action :extract, description: "Extract and archive file." do
 
-        require_libarchive
-
         unless ::File.exist?(new_resource.path)
           raise Errno::ENOENT, "No archive found at #{new_resource.path}! Cannot continue."
         end
@@ -131,10 +135,6 @@ class ArchiveFile < Chef::Resource
       end
 
       action_class do
-        def require_libarchive
-          require "ffi-libarchive"
-        end
-
         def define_resource_requirements
           if new_resource.mode.is_a?(Integer)
             Chef.deprecated(:archive_file_integer_file_mode, "The mode property should be passed to archive_file resources as a String and not an Integer to ensure the value is properly interpreted.")

spec/functional/resource/archive_file_spec.rb

@@ -18,8 +18,9 @@
 require "spec_helper"
 require "tmpdir"
 
-# Exclude this test on platforms where ffi-libarchive loading is broken
-describe Chef::Resource::ArchiveFile, :libarchive_loading_broken do
+# AIX is broken, see https://github.com/chef/omnibus-software/issues/1566
+# Windows tests are disbled since we'd need libarchive on windows testers in buildkite for PRs
+describe Chef::Resource::ArchiveFile, :not_supported_on_aix, :not_supported_on_windows do
   include RecipeDSLHelper
 
   let(:tmp_path) { Dir.mktmpdir }

spec/spec_helper.rb

@@ -187,8 +187,6 @@ def self.from(system_exit)
   config.filter_run_excluding not_rhel7: true if rhel7?
   config.filter_run_excluding not_intel_64bit: true if intel_64bit?
 
-  config.filter_run_excluding libarchive_loading_broken: true if aix? || amazon_linux? || rhel7?
-
   # these let us use chef: ">= 13" or ruby: "~> 2.0.0" or any other Gem::Dependency-style constraint
   config.filter_run_excluding chef: DependencyProc.with(Chef::VERSION)
   config.filter_run_excluding ruby: DependencyProc.with(RUBY_VERSION)

spec/unit/resource/archive_file_spec.rb

@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@ def extract(entry, flags = 0, destination: nil); end
   end
 end
 
-# Exclude this test on platforms where ffi-libarchive loading is broken
-describe Chef::Resource::ArchiveFile, :libarchive_loading_broken do
+describe Chef::Resource::ArchiveFile, :not_supported_on_aix do
   let(:node) { Chef::Node.new }
   let(:events) { Chef::EventDispatch::Dispatcher.new }
   let(:run_context) { Chef::RunContext.new(node, {}, events) }