On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:45 PM, Felix Frank wrote:

> On 12/09/2010 05:13 AM, Patrick wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> 
>>> Sadly, no. I very much missed the feature. We ended up using the apt
>>> preferences file to implement that behaviour
>>> 
>>> If I was doing it over I would use a define that added the package
>>> resource and also used concat to automatically build up the
>>> preferences entry.
>>> 
>>> Regards, Daniel.
>>> 
>> 
>> That's an interestring idea.
>> 
>> I have one bit of advice about this.  Make sure your source file
>> requires your preferences file.  If you don't, it's possible one day to
>> get very unlucky and have only your source file pushed with nasty results.
> 
> Also note that starting with Squeeze, Debian ships a version of apt that
> supports an /etc/apt/preferences.d/. This makes pinning various packages
> using puppet feasible.

In theory you could cook something up with puppet_concat, but that does make 
things a lot easier.

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