Use :put action in similar way to :install action?

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I initially used the default action :install and had the resource creating both the versioned and symlinked directory: /usr/share/tomcat-8.0.24 symlinked to /usr/share/tomcat. What I hoped to do with :put is to create only /usr/share/tomcat-8.0.24. I've run into trouble though and I'm not able to get this to work. Is there any easy way to use :put and achieve this? It seems that when using this action lots of the passed in attributes are doctored.

Any tips? Thank you.