It’s been long overdue, but a new version of the Ark cookbook has been pushed up to the Supermarket. Franklin Webber did a large refactor under the hood, and added extensive unit tests for the various resources. There’s also been a pile of fixes to improve platform support for RHEL, FreeBSD, Windows, and OS X. Give it a try and let us know if you run into any problems. Also we heard the requests for more frequent releases, so expect quick releases after PR merges. We know the importance of this cookbook to many people, and running off master in your Berksfile is less than ideal.
• Added the pkg-config package to the debian platform family
• Added tar, xz-lzma-compat, and bzip2 packages to the RHEL and fedora platform families
• Updated FreeBSD to install gmake instead of make
• Added OS X, SmartOS, and FreeBSD to the tar path attributes to support those platforms
• Removed the has_binaries attribute from put action documentation in the readme file since this isn’t supported there
• Moved the libraries module locations to no longer be under Opscode:: and broke out libraries into more logical units
• Fixed issues with spaces in Windows paths that could cause failures
• Fixed a bad attribute for the 7zip home on windows. Instead of using a node attribute use the value directly to avoid computed attribute overiding issues
• Switched from the 7-zip cookbook to seven_zip since the 7-zip cookbook is now deprecated
• Changed unzip commands to not use -u so that a newer archive can overwrite an existing directory
• Added support for actions py_setup, py_setup_install, py_setup_build
• Fixed setting home_dir attribute
• Added source_url and issues_url to the metadata.rb
• Expanded the supported platforms in metadata.rb
• Removed all references to Opscode
• Improved error logging when an unknown extension is encountered
• Added support for .tar files
• Improved overall testing:
• Removed the kitchen.cloud.yml file and gem dependencies
• Added integration testing in Travis with Kitchen-Docker and Travis tests now run using the nightly build of ChefDK
• Expanded platforms tested in the .kitchen.yml file
• Updated the Gemfile with the latest testing dependencies
• Added full Chefspec coverage
• Greatly expanded the ark_spec test cookbook
• Removed the original minitests
• Added standard Chef .gitignore and chefignore files
• Resolved a large number of rubocop warnings
• Removed old Opscode contributing and testing docs
• Added a cookbook version badge to the readme
• Removed the Toftfile
-Tim