On 26 Jan 2010, at 2:41 pm, 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";
That's going to create a lot of unnecessary extra work for the machine to do. What happens if your promises happen to generate a couple of dozen package installations needed? You'll spank your web proxy (or worse, the upstream repository) rather unnecessarily hard. Just have a shellcommand run aptitude update for you once a day. Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
