[[chef-dev]] remote_file checksum behavior

[Nate Mueller < >]

I'm working on a chef deployment and noticed that anything that subscribed to or was notified by a remote_file resource would still run if the file was unchanged.  It looks like do_remote_file does an initial comparison between the declared checksum for the new file and the actual checksum for the old file.  If you don't specify a checksum or the checksums mismatch it fetches the file, computes a checksum and uses that going forward.  If the real checksums match it won't create a backup file but it will still copy the new file over and set @updated.

Is that the desired behavior?  Seemed strange to me so I patched it locally but I'm new around here so I wanted to check before filing it.

    --Nate