On 22 Dec 2011, at 02:29, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Walter Heck <walterh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Look into apt pinning, that is the way to pin specific packages to come from
>> a specific origin. It's done in /etc/apt/preferences, the deep inner
>> workings are a tad voodoo, but nothing too crazy :)
>
> Thanks for the advice, Walter.
>
> There are a couple of options:
>
> 1) Pin all of squeeze-backports higher than squeeze. The drawback here
> is that more of squeeze-backports will get pulled in than just the
> dependencies of "request-tracker4".
>
> 2) Pin the dependent packages from s-b-p higher than squeeze. The
> drawback here is that I'll need to manually enter all of the
> dependencies of rt4 into the pinning stanzas.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to use the -t option for apt-get/aptitude - that
> provides the cleanest package install process.
>
> Thanks for jogging my memory about pinning though, it should suffice
> if there is not clean way to use the '-t' option with puppet.
>
> Any other advice is (equally) welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -mz
How about this:
package { 'puppetmaster/squeeze-backports':
ensure => installed,
}
Looks a lot easier to me. It takes all the dependencies it needs from squeeze
when available.
If it can't find any suitable dependencies it will try to use backports
instead, but only for the requested package.
Regards,
Tom
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