[chef] Re: Re: Re: ark resource

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Getting closer - 

[2012-08-20T15:34:50-04:00] ERROR: ark[maven] (/home/<user>/chef-repo/cookbooks/maven/recipes/default.rb:11:in `from_file') had an error:
ark[maven] (maven::default line 11) had an error: Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted - /home/<user>/buildtools/maven/maven-3.0.4/maven
/home/<user>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:1331:in `chown'
/home/<user>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:1331:in `chown'
/home/<user>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:1062:in `block (2 levels) in chown_R'
/home/<user>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:1433:in `preorder_traverse'
/home/<user>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:1060:in `block in chown_R'
/home/<user>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:1059:in `each'
/home/<user>/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/fileutils.rb:1059:in `chown_R'
/home/<user>/chef-repo/cookbooks/ark/libraries/provider_ark.rb:170:in `action_set_owner'
/home/<user>/chef-repo/cookbooks/ark/libraries/provider_ark.rb:137:in `action_put'

Closer - but it seems like :put is trying to change the ownership - not sure why tho.  Is there a way to skip that?  All I see is a value to set it to, but don't even want that to run...