Nice. Does this work for you, Jonathan? Nakarin Phooripoom wrote: > Zypper and yum seem to check and update the latest list of packages every > time it runs before installing any selected packages. > > Could we do something like this for Debian/Ubuntu? > > package_add_command => "/usr/bin/aptitude update && /usr/bin/aptitude > --assume-yes install"; > > Cheers, > --Nakarin > > On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Mark Burgess wrote: > >> This seems reasonable. I am spoiled using zypper which does this >> automatically. >> >> 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 >> -- >> Mark Burgess >> >> ------------------------------------------------- >> Professor of Network and System Administration >> Oslo University College, Norway >> >> Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark >> Office Telf : +47 22453272 >> ------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-cfengine mailing list >> Help-cfengine@cfengine.org >> https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine >
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