What happened here was the $codename = $::lsbdistcodename was removed from
init.pp and replaced with just $::lsbdistcodename whereever $codename was
used. Then in the sources.list.erb and preferences files things were changed
like this:
<pre>+### Debian current: <%= codename = scope.lookupvar('::lsbdistcodename') %>
...
-deb <%= debian_url %> <%= codename %> <%= repos %>
...
+deb <%= debian_url=scope.lookupvar('apt::debian_url') %> <%= codename %> <%= repos=scope.lookupvar('apt::repos') %>
</pre>
This meant that the codename was always set to lsbdistcodename, and you because
in newer puppet versions you cannot assign a value to a top-level facter
variable, it is not possible to change this.
Because we cannot change $lsbdistcodename, we have to fix this by allowing the
user to pass a different, non-top-level scoped variable to the class as a
parameter, which defaults to $::lsbdistcodename, so that upgrades can be
triggered.
This is documented in the README in an upgrade notice
The APT pinning we ship does not support that, and this seems a bit too much of
a corner case to me to deserve being supported out-of-the-box.
Anyone willing to use current release + next release + next release backports
(e.g. Lenny + Squeeze + squeeze-backports) can anyway do so using
apt::sources_list and apt::preferences_snippet.
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/2856 is the bug that triggered this change.
Merging one more commit.
Conflicts:
files/preferences
templates/Debian/sources.list.deb-src.erb
templates/Debian/sources.list.volatile.erb
templates/Ubuntu/sources.list.backports.erb
templates/Ubuntu/sources.list.deb-src.erb
File headers are there to indicate that the files should not be touched
directly on the server. By changing the first sentence to "This file is
managed by Puppet", we reinforce the idea that it is already taken care
of by something else.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
Currently, it's either we use the default source that's hardcoded in the
sources.list template or we redefine entirely this template.
Make it easier to just change the URL of the apt source while using the
rest of the default template by adding a $main_apt_source variable.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
