@ranjib pointed out I hard-wired to upgrade

coderanger · coderanger · commit 9c6d0aae483c · 2014-09-22T12:57:32.000-07:00
Use the correct semantics of upgrade unless version locked.
diff --git a/recipes/pip.rb b/recipes/pip.rb
@@ -48,6 +48,6 @@
 end
 
 python_pip 'setuptools' do
-  action :upgrade
+  action :upgrade unless node['python']['setuptools_version']
   version node['python']['setuptools_version']
 end
