nodejs_from_binary recipe fails due to recent change in ark dependency

[zonotope]

Cookbook version:

3.0.0

Chef client version:

11.4

Platform Details

Amazon Linux/OpsWorks

Scenario

Recent versions of the ark cookbook no longer includes owner= method for ark resources. This causes at least the nodejs::nodejs_from_binary recipe to fail with the following error:

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Error executing action `install` on resource 'ark[nodejs-binary]'
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NoMethodError
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undefined method `owner=' for Chef::Resource::Ark

Possible solution

The ark dependency is not locked to a specific version so changes upstream caused this failure. I believe this issue will be fixed by locking the ark dependency to version 2.1.0.

[tas50]

Chef 11 is EOL and ark now requires Chef 12. If you want to stay on Chef 11 you'll need to manage version dependencies in your own wrapper cookbook or berkshelf config.