The two forms of APT preferences records (general & specific) can now be
completely and not partially defined. All distribution properties can be passed
as resource parameters. This change is totally backward-compatible.
As the apt pinnings are parsed in ascending alphabetical order with
first match wins within a given scope it is useful to be able to specify
a ordering parameter. Then the name parameter can be kept to something
meaningful.
If you need to pin certain Launchpad PPA (ppa:rskvazh/php), you may do:
apt::pin { 'my-launchpad-repo':
priority => 700,
originator =>'LP-PPA-rskvazh-php',
}
Write the pin preference filename as ${name} rather than ${release}, so
that we can pin more than one thing.
Change apt::source so that when pin is set, that it pins to the origin
rather than the release.
apt::pin release should default to title, but should be able to
override. This update removes unnecessary "" around $name, and add spec
tests.
Conflicts:
spec/defines/pin_spec.rb
Several apt::* define resource type does not support ensurable. This
update allows ensure=>absent to support the removal of these
configuration files.
* apt::conf
* apt::pin
* apt::source
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.
When the name is used with a file resource, it becomes difficult to test the
resource using rspec-puppet, as the name parameter gets aliased to path. So to
maintain consistency between tests and manifests, this replaces all name
parameters in file resources with the equivalent path parameter.
