Issue #2406 has been updated by Stefan Völkel.
While preference files work technically, they break dependency wise:
/etc/apt/preferences.d/linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem.pref:
Package: linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem
Pin: release a=squeeze-backports
Pin-Priority: 600
The pin works, see candidate:
# apt-cache policy linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem
linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.6.39+35.1~bpo60+1
Package pin: 2.6.39+35.1~bpo60+1
Version table:
2.6.39+35.1~bpo60+1 600
100 http://10.46.255.153/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports/main
i386 Packages
2.6.32+29 600
500 http://10.46.255.153//debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
However the package itself does depend on other packages from backports, so
installation fails:
# apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem : Depends: linux-image-686-pae but it is not
going to be installed
E: Broken packages
The problem is further down the dependency chain:
linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae : Depends: linux-base (>= 3~) but
2.6.32-38 is to be installed
Recommends: firmware-linux-free (>= 3~) but
2.6.32-35 is to be installed
Breaks: initramfs-tools (< 0.99~) but
0.98.8 is to be installed
Now for this to work, you'd need to find out all dependencies of your package
and pin each of them.
If dependencies change over time, this will break.
However apt-get -t squeeze-backports works:
apt-get -sy install -t squeeze-backports linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
initramfs-tools linux-base linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae
linux-image-686-pae
Suggested packages:
linux-doc-2.6.39
Recommended packages:
busybox busybox-initramfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae
linux-image-686-pae
The following packages will be upgraded:
initramfs-tools linux-base
2 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 137 not upgraded.
Inst initramfs-tools [0.98.8] (0.99~bpo60+1 Debian
Backports:squeeze-backports [all])
Inst linux-base [2.6.32-35] (3.3~bpo60+1 Debian Backports:squeeze-backports
[all])
Inst linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae (2.6.39-3~bpo60+1 Debian
Backports:squeeze-backports [i386])
Inst linux-image-686-pae (2.6.39+35.1~bpo60+1 Debian
Backports:squeeze-backports [i386])
Inst linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem (2.6.39+35.1~bpo60+1 Debian
Backports:squeeze-backports [i386])
Conf initramfs-tools (0.99~bpo60+1 Debian Backports:squeeze-backports [all])
Conf linux-base (3.3~bpo60+1 Debian Backports:squeeze-backports [all])
Conf linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae (2.6.39-3~bpo60+1 Debian
Backports:squeeze-backports [i386])
Conf linux-image-686-pae (2.6.39+35.1~bpo60+1 Debian
Backports:squeeze-backports [i386])
Conf linux-image-2.6-686-bigmem (2.6.39+35.1~bpo60+1 Debian
Backports:squeeze-backports [i386])
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Feature #2406: APT provider's ensure parameter should support release name
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2406
Author: Andrew Pollock
Status: Investigating
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: Debian
Target version:
Affected Puppet version: 0.24.8
Keywords:
Branch:
This is a feature request received via Debian, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513553
>
> I'd like to be able to specify something like:
> package {
> "openoffice.org": ensure => "etch-backports";
> }
>
> This would call:
> apt-get install openoffice.org/etch-backports
> or
> apt-get install -t etch-backports openoffice.org
>
> instead of:
> apt-get install openoffice.org=etch-backports
>
> Can puppet check if the ensure parameter starts with a digit and decide
> accordingly?
>
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