Previously the update-apt exec would always use /usr/bin/aptitude, which is not necessarily present. This change makes it use ${apt::params::provider} which defaults to /usr/bin/apt-get. This also adds some consistency so that ${apt::params::provider} is used everywhere.
With the addition of this patch two new defines will be added; one to
manage APT configuration files (apt::conf) and one that abstracts out the
requirements needed to turn on backport repositories (apt::backports).
In addition, the patch takes the opportunity to clean up variable
definitions so they follow a consistent pattern of setting local
variables to the fully qualified value stored in the apt::params
class. Previously all variable used within a class directly addressed
the apt::params namespace when ever the variable was used. In the
pattern they now adhere to we can more easily switch the namespace
data lives in or externalize it even more using hiera.
This commit changes $release to default to Facter's $lsbdistcodename
and fall back to a Parse Error if $release is not set and $lsbdistcodename
does not exist. Previously $release was hardcoded to karmic.
This commit also modifies apt::ppa to use $release and sets the
files to be ensured so that they are not purged when purge_sources_list_d
is set to true.
