Issue #3986 has been updated by Nigel Kersten.
<pre>
class apt::updates {
exec { blah blah apt-get update }
}
Package { require => Class["apt::updates"], }
}
</pre>
We've taken this a bit further and have an apt_package defined type to do other
things.
There are lots of reasons apt-get update might fail, there are lots of reasons
apt-get install foo might fail.
Requiring such an expensive process each time a package fails isn't how I
expect puppet to work.
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Bug #3986: apt-get update after failed apt-get install
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3986
Author: Robert Scheer
Status: Needs more information
Priority: Normal
Assigned to:
Category: package
Target version:
Affected version: 0.25.5
Keywords: debian apt apt-get update
Branch:
Apt, the default package provider for Debian, maintains a local cache of a
remote package repository. Updating this cache (by executing "apt-get update")
can and should be an external non-Puppet task, as it is a relatively expensive
process. It is time-consuming on the Debian client and resource-consuming on
the package repository server, so this should not happen too often.
However, failing to install a package just because the local package cache is
out-of-date, I consider to be a bug in Puppet. This is why I propose the
following fix: if "apt-get install <package>" fails, then first execute
"apt-get update" and then repeat "apt-get install <package>". This is the same
one would do when trying to install the package manually.
A patch for the current stable version is attached.
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