Hi Gabriel, first of all thanks for your comment much appreciated.
Take a look to the example I wrote, I know writing the version in ensure puppet will do that...but let's imagine someone puts a new version of one of our services in the repository and another someone comes and makes the mistake of upgrading without noticing that new version, the service will be restarted twice ... for the upgrade and next time puppet will run, also notice we're not running puppet agent in daemon mode so either a human or Nagios will have to find out about the upgrade. We would like to avoid this kind of situations. About the preferences file, I also know...that's what we are currently doing and also would like to get rid of them, less files to maintain, less work when upgrading things and less chances of forgetting them :-) We think holding the packages is the right option for us. Thanks! sjr On Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:25:57 AM UTC+2, Lelutin wrote: > > Hey there, > > On 15/05/13 08:24 PM, sjr wrote: > > The thing is we would like to be able to specify a version for the > > package and tell dpkg to hold it to prevent unwanted upgrades (mainly > > because human errors). As I haven't been able to get it working with > > current APT provider I would like if with its current status this is > > possible... > > if you provide a version in the "ensure" parameter, then puppet will > install this specific version.. > > but the way we do it where I work is to have puppet drop a file in > /etc/apt/preferences.d and pin it. See [0] for more info on pinning (it > doesn't talk about preferences.d, but everything that can go in > /etc/apt/preferences can be split in different files in > /etc/apt/preferences.d) > > [0]: http://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences > > this way, you're sure that no operation, should it be puppet or manual > interventions will upgrade the package. > > -- > Gabriel Filion > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
