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

[Jesse Campbell < >]

It also shows on the community site

On Jan 10, 2014 1:08 PM, "Noah Kantrowitz" < "> > wrote:

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

--Noah

On Jan 10, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Stephen Corbesero < "> > wrote:

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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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