[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#513553: package type's ensure parameter does not support release name (may be debian specific)

[Jayen Ashar]

Package: puppet
Version: 0.24.6-1
Severity: wishlist

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?

Thanks,
Jayen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686-bigmem
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                3.102             Add and remove users and groups
ii  facter                 1.3.5-1           a library for retrieving facts fro
ii  libopenssl-ruby        1.0.0+ruby1.8.2-1 OpenSSL interface for Ruby
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8      1.4.1-7           Interface of shadow password for R
ii  libxmlrpc-ruby         1.8.2-1           XML-RPC support for Ruby
ii  lsb-base               3.1-23.2etch1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  ruby                   1.8.2-1           An interpreter of object-oriented 

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  rdoc                          1.8.2-1    Generate documentation from ruby s

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