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

backport of #12552

Signed-off-by: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/resource/archive_file.rb b/lib/chef/resource/archive_file.rb
index 4d77ee979b..7af4fc7cb4 100644
--- a/lib/chef/resource/archive_file.rb
+++ b/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
@@ -88,8 +94,6 @@ class Chef
       action :extract do
         description "Extract and archive file."
 
-        require_libarchive
-
         unless ::File.exist?(new_resource.path)
           raise Errno::ENOENT, "No archive found at #{new_resource.path}! Cannot continue."
         end
@@ -127,10 +131,6 @@ class Chef
       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.")
diff --git a/spec/unit/resource/archive_file_spec.rb b/spec/unit/resource/archive_file_spec.rb
index 6effe550db..6017d68b7e 100644
--- a/spec/unit/resource/archive_file_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/unit/resource/archive_file_spec.rb
@@ -17,7 +17,19 @@
 
 require "spec_helper"
 
-describe Chef::Resource::ArchiveFile do
+begin
+  require "ffi-libarchive"
+rescue LoadError
+  module Archive
+    class Reader
+      def close; end
+      def each_entry; end
+      def extract(entry, flags = 0, destination: nil); end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+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) }