[chef] Re: What does the "supports" directive in a cookbook's metadata really do?

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

It does nothing aside from show up in the new webui.

--Noah

On Jan 10, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Stephen Corbesero 
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> Does the “supports” directive in a cookbooks metadata.rb file do anything, 
> or is it just a piece of documentation.
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> I assumed it would restrict the execution  of cookbook recipes to only run 
> on nodes with the support’ed platform, but that does not seem o be case.
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> Stephen Corbesero, Performance Engineer
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