[Puppet Users] Re: customizing an existing type & provider, or creating a new set

2010-05-24 Thread Hercynium
On May 24, 4:14 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > I believe we actually have a feature request in for the apt provider to do > what you've asked for btw. > Cool, I'll look for it and subscribe. Even though the example I posted is easily solved with pinning, there can be much more complicated scenarios

[Puppet Users] Re: customizing an existing type & provider, or creating a new set

2010-05-24 Thread Hercynium
On May 23, 8:14 pm, Nigel Kersten wrote: > Have you considered just pinning this package via a file and requiring that > before this resource? I have, and already implemented that, thanks! :) However I can already think of other situations where being able to extend existing types would be desira

[Puppet Users] customizing an existing type & provider, or creating a new set

2010-05-23 Thread Hercynium
Good afternoon. I've just started playing with puppet, and I'm currently stuck trying to figure out how to accomplish the following: I want to add a property to the package type resource, so if one is on a debian-based system they can specify from which "release" to install a package and it's depe