Often, pinning an individual package for using backports simply does not suffice, and pinning all recursive dependencies is a no-go as well. Meanwhile, we have 'install_options' (i.e. the provider accepts options to be passed to the installer command) support in puppet, but only the windows msi provider uses it.
The goal of this module was it to get the opportunity to set the target release (among various other options) and therefor properly installing packages from backports.
Simply use it!:
package {'your_fav_software':
ensure => present,
provider => 'aptbpo',
install_options => { '-t' => 'squeeze-backports' },
}
None so far.
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