Install s3cmd via pip rather than from a tarball.

playbooks/roles/aws/defaults/main.yml

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ aws_s3_sync_script: "{{ aws_dirs.home.path }}/send-logs-to-s3"
 aws_s3_logfile: "{{ aws_dirs.logs.path }}/s3-log-sync.log"
 aws_region: "us-east-1"
 # default path to the aws binary
-aws_s3cmd: "{{ COMMON_BIN_DIR }}/s3cmd"
+aws_s3cmd: "/usr/local/bin/s3cmd"
 aws_cmd: "/usr/local/bin/aws"
 #
 # OS packages
@@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ aws_pip_pkgs:
   - https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/aws-cfn-bootstrap-latest.tar.gz
   - awscli==1.4.2
   - boto=="{{ common_boto_version }}"
+  - s3cmd==1.6.1
 
 aws_redhat_pkgs: []
-aws_s3cmd_version: s3cmd-1.5.0-beta1
-aws_s3cmd_url: "http://files.edx.org/s3cmd/{{ aws_s3cmd_version }}.tar.gz"

playbooks/roles/aws/tasks/main.yml

@@ -70,23 +70,6 @@
     extra_args="-i {{ COMMON_PYPI_MIRROR_URL }}"
   with_items: aws_pip_pkgs
 
-- name: get s3cmd
-  get_url: >
-    url={{ aws_s3cmd_url }}
-    dest={{ aws_dirs.data.path }}/
-
-- name: untar s3cmd
-  shell: >
-    tar xf {{ aws_dirs.data.path }}/{{ aws_s3cmd_version }}.tar.gz
-    creates={{ aws_dirs.data.path }}/{{ aws_s3cmd_version }}/s3cmd
-    chdir={{ aws_dirs.home.path }}
-
-- name: create symlink for s3cmd
-  file: >
-    src={{ aws_dirs.home.path }}/{{ aws_s3cmd_version }}/s3cmd
-    dest={{ aws_s3cmd }}
-    state=link
-
 - name: create s3 log sync script
   template: >
     dest={{ aws_s3_sync_script }}