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

[Andrew Pollock]

forwarded 513553 http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/2406
thanks

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:44:20PM +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote:
> 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?
> 

This is an upstream feature request, I've reported it upstream for you.
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