[chef-dev] Re: CHEF-2398 symlinks to "filename" or "./filename"

[Maciej Pasternacki < >]

On Apr 16, 2012, at 18:30 , Laurent Desarmes wrote:

>> On Linux (and probably other Unices) it works with Chef as well - I've got 
>> this in my cookbooks:
>> 
>> # ree doesn't leave a versioned binary, which makes rake use system one.
>> link "/usr/local/bin/ruby1.8" do
>>  to "ruby"
>> end
> 
> The funny thing is that I do that as well :)
> 
> Are you using any report handler ? your link[/usr/local/bin/ruby1.8] 
> resource
> is being reported as updated_by_last_run on every run, isn't it ?
> 
> I've updated the ticket with another fix proposal.

Right now I'm not running any report handlers, so I can't tell - I'll want to 
look into Cuisine in the future, though, so this tip may be helpful.