Prefer gtar to tar

Fixes #702
11 years ago · e4a3e5fdd7
parent 3165b39d21
commit e4a3e5fdd7
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/files/unarchive.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/files/unarchive.py
@ -129,7 +129,11 @@ class TgzArchive(object):
        self.src = src
        self.dest = dest
        self.module = module
-        self.cmd_path = self.module.get_bin_path('tar')
+        # Prefer gtar (GNU tar) as it supports the compression options -zjJ
+        self.cmd_path = self.module.get_bin_path('gtar', None)
+        if not self.cmd_path:
+            # Fallback to tar
+            self.cmd_path = self.module.get_bin_path('tar')
        self.zipflag = 'z'
        self._files_in_archive = []