On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Martijn Grendelman
<mart...@grendelman.net> wrote:
>
> What I would like, is for Puppet to run `aptitude update` before it
> installs or upgrades packages. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to
> me, but I can't make it work in Puppet.

The run stages of puppet 2.6 addresses this need.  I recommend you
look into adding a class to a stage which runs before the main stage.
The class would contain an exec resource to run aptitude update
periodically.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Jeff McCune
http://www.puppetlabs.com/

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