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cdist-type__install_stage

download and unpack a stage file

Downloads a operating system stage using curl and unpacks it to /target using tar. The stage tarball is expected to be gzip compressed.

uri

The uri from which to fetch the tarball. Can be anything understood by curl, e.g: http://path/to/stage.tgz tftp:///path/to/stage.tgz file:///local/path/stage.tgz

target

where to unpack the tarball to. Defaults to /target.

insecure

run curl in insecure mode so it does not check the servers ssl certificate

__install_stage --uri tftp:///path/to/stage.tgz
__install_stage --uri http://path/to/stage.tgz --target /mnt/foobar
__install_stage --uri file:///path/to/stage.tgz --target /target
__install_stage --uri https://path/to/stage.tgz --target /mnt/foobar --insecure

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Copyright (C) 2011 - 2013 Steven Armstrong. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).

Steven Armstrong <steven-cdist--@--armstrong.cc>

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