On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:39 AM, tecneeq <tecn...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 13 Nov., 18:14, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > >> > I guess tasksel tasks have to be installed with exec then. >> >> I was under the impression tasksel was largely being deprecated in >> favor of meta-packages. What Debian are you on? > > I never heard something like that. Do you have a source?
Once I actually looked it up, I don't have a good reason for thinking that. The Debian wiki doesn't say anything along those lines, but the Ubuntu site says: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel "This function is similar to that of meta-packages, and, in fact, most of the tasks available from tasksel are also available as meta-packages from the Ubuntu package managers (such as Synaptic Package Manager or KPackageKit)." which is possibly where I got the impression from. > >> I'm not sure we can easily shoe-horn tasks into the existing apt >> provider, unless we looked at tasks if a given package isn't found >> (are there any namespace collisions between tasks and packages?), but >> I reckon it's feasible to write a package provider that only used >> tasks. > > There aren't any namespace conflicts. Is this by design? Can we rely upon there never being any namespace conflicts here? > >> Would you find it acceptable to have to specify a tasksel provider >> when doing what you're trying to do? >> >> e.g. >> >> package { "gnome-desktop": >> provider => tasksel, >> ensure => installed, >> } > > I would find that solution very acceptable indeed :). > > Any chance a change like that would make it into Debian squeeze before > release? Probably not, although because this is a new provider (that none of us have actually written yet :) ), you could easily distribute it with pluginsync to your clients. -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.puppetlabs.com -- 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.
