On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:44:46AM +1000, Jayen Ashar wrote:
> How can I set aptitude as my preferred package provider globally? I
> can't find any documentation on it, and a google search for "global
> preferred package provider" (and variants) doesn't give me anything
> useful.
Default the provider for the Package type to be aptitude. There's docs on
that.
> Is there any documentation on why apt-get is the default for
> debian/ubuntu, when aptitude is installed?
Because nobody's put forward a patch to do it differently.
Your problem isn't aptitude vs apt-get, though -- apt-get is perfectly
capable of resolving and installing dependencies. My guess is that you
haven't setup your preferences correctly to tell Puppet to install dependent
packages from your backports repo:
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Basically, your system config is screwed, and it's not Puppet's fault. Nor
will switching to aptitude solve your problem (unless it ignores repo
preferences).
- Matt
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