On 25/01/2010 14:44, Jonathan Clarke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been testing the standard library, in particular the apt
> package_method. I come with a bug and some suggestions.
One further question:
To "be aware" of new package, aptitude (or apt-get) must download the
latest list of packages from all repositories. This is done via the
command "aptitude update".
Currently, cfengine does not do this, nor does it seem to provide a
field to fill in a package_method for this. Is this deliberate, or just
missing?
I realize this could be done separately in a commands section, that then
defines a class on success, and causes a packages promise to be executed
on the next iteration through promises... but that feel ugly, and does
not succeed at "hiding" the package system's details.
Should we add a package_list_update_command, that would be executed once
on each execution (at most) before any packages promises are run (if not
empty)?
For discussion, I'm considering this simple example:
8<--
packages:
"apache2"
package_policy => "update",
package_method => apt,
comment => "This promise keeps apache2 as up to date as possible";
8<--
Jonathan
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