Issue #2406 has been updated by Aaron Stone.

Please reject this proposal with extreme prejudice. Why? Because you are asking 
for a config option that would perform an apt-get update on every invocation of 
this class on every puppet run. You don't want that. You want a given puppet 
run to be able to look at the currently-installed version, look at the manifest 
version, and if they match, STOP.

You don't want the current puppet run to have to say, "well, the versions 
match, but what if there's a new version on the server? Guess I should pull 
down the debian updates and check again!"
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Feature #2406: APT provider's ensure parameter should support release name
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2406#change-78793

Author: Andrew Pollock
Status: Investigating
Priority: Normal
Assignee: eric sorenson
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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