I would recommend that you check if the install is successful and run aptitude
update if its not. If a updated package is published since you ran "aptitude
update" you will get a 404 on your request for the older version. I think this
would be the most elegant thing to do, instead of failing to install the
package on every run until the packet database gets updated.
/Andreas
> So the best practice should be like this; :-)
>
> <snippet>
> commands:
> debian|ubuntu.Hr00::
> "/usr/bin/aptitude update";
>
> packages:
> debian|ubuntu::
> "$(packages_to_be_installed)"
> package_policy => "add",
> package_method => aptitude;
> <snippet>
>
> body package_method aptitude
> {
> <snippet>
> package_add_command => "/usr/bin/aptitude --assume-yes install";
> <snippet>
> }
>
> Cheers,
> --Nakarin
>
> On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Tim Cutts wrote:
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
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