Actually, this is the same with apt-get (having to do "apt-get update").
I will work on a global patch to include this. Jonathan On 25/01/2010 17:02, Mark Burgess wrote: > > Since we didn't look at aptitude (no debian users in the office) we only made > functionality that was supported in apt-get. > > If you can set up and test the full thing for aptitude, that is a great > service to the > community. > > Jonathan Clarke wrote: >> 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 > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Clarke - jonat...@phillipoux.net -------------------------------------------------------------- Ldap Synchronization Connector (LSC) - http://lsc-project.org -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
