[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#532398: Bug#532398: trying to pull packages from backports may introduce 'dependency hell'

[Micah Anderson]

* Jayen Ashar <jayen at science.unsw.edu.au> [2009-06-09 02:04-0400]:
> Package: puppet
> Version: 0.24.8-1~bpo50+1
> Severity: normal
> 
> I'm trying to push out openoffice 3 from lenny backports to some lenny 
> machines, but it appears that I have to explicitly list each version of each 
> package, thereby introducing 'dependency hell.'  perhaps puppet could use 
> aptitude instead of apt-get?

Yes, you can set aptitude as your preferred package provider globally,
or for individual operations.