* Martijn Grendelman <martijn at grendelman.net> [2010/08/31 22:02]: > 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.
I would do the `aptitude update` in cron, outside of puppet, and manage the cronjob via the cron type. That would eliminate your precedence and ordering problems completely. -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.