[chef] Re: ark cookbook resources are not idempotent?

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Hi Mike,

Can you try with the master branch of the ark cookbook git repository? We've 
recently refactored it pretty heavily to use inline resources in the provider.

See COOK-2520 for more information.

On May 20, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Mike 
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 wrote:

> I've started looking at using ark to do the download, unzip,
> configure, make, make install dance.
> 
> It seems like every time Chef runs, `make`, `make install` is executed 
> again.
> 
> ark 'ghostscript' do
>  url 'http://downloads.ghostscript.com/public/ghostscript-9.07.tar.gz'
>  version '9.07'
>  checksum '44800d004c53f13192d1b5db413119198ddfc8a11c4d2a030aac2f2fda822ebf'
>  action [:configure, :install_with_make]
> end
> 
> From logs:
> 
>  * ark[ghostscript] action install_with_makeRecipe: <Dynamically
> Defined Resource>
>  * directory[/usr/local/ghostscript-9.07] action create (up to date)
>  * bash[build with make] action run
>    - execute "bash"  "/tmp/chef-script20130520-15167-13q0blu"
> 
>  * link[/usr/local/ghostscript] action create (up to date)
>  * bash[make install] action run
>    - execute "bash"  "/tmp/chef-script20130520-15167-ys05zc"
> 
> Chef 11.4.4, Omnibus build, ark 0.1.0
> 
> Further evidenced by the timestamp on every binary added getting a new
> timestamp.
> 
> Is this just me? I hope not...
> -M