Re: [Puppet Users] Holding packages on providers with holdable feature

2013-05-20 Thread sjr
Thanks! I'll continue the discussion there after opening the issue :-) sjr. On Saturday, May 18, 2013 1:18:07 AM UTC+2, Lelutin wrote: > > On 17/05/13 03:45 AM, sjr wrote: > > I have done a quick&dirty hack to the APT provider and it works when > > installing a new package I can enforce a vers

Re: [Puppet Users] Holding packages on providers with holdable feature

2013-05-17 Thread Gabriel Filion
On 17/05/13 03:45 AM, sjr wrote: > I have done a quick&dirty hack to the APT provider and it works when > installing a new package I can enforce a version and hold it. But from > my minor mod to a proper patch...there is still much work to do, so > that's why I was looking for comments, opinions, a

Re: [Puppet Users] Holding packages on providers with holdable feature

2013-05-17 Thread sjr
Hi Grabriel, yes, that's the point ... it's not currently possible so I wanted to know what the community is doing for overcoming this "problem" ... and whether it could be a useful feature. I have done a quick&dirty hack to the APT provider and it works when installing a new package I can enf

Re: [Puppet Users] Holding packages on providers with holdable feature

2013-05-16 Thread Gabriel Filion
On 16/05/13 03:28 AM, sjr wrote: > 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

Re: [Puppet Users] Holding packages on providers with holdable feature

2013-05-16 Thread sjr
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 mistak

Re: [Puppet Users] Holding packages on providers with holdable feature

2013-05-15 Thread Gabriel Filion
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 wit

[Puppet Users] Holding packages on providers with holdable feature

2013-05-15 Thread sjr
Hi Puppet Users :-) I've been looking for information on how to hold packages on Debian because we maintain a bunch of package that are either part of our products or they are not available in Debian repos. The thing is we would like to be able to specify a version for the package and tell dpk