Puppet users - Jul 2013 - Installing LibreOffice 4 via wheezy-backports

Hi folks,

My site uses puppetmaster 3.2.3 together with Debian wheezy, but I want a 
few packages from wheezy-backports, like iceweasel and libreoffice. The 
former I''ve installed as follows:

        package { "iceweasel":
                ensure => ''22.0-1~bpo70+1'',
                provider => ''apt'',
                install_options => { ''-t'' =>
''wheezy-backports'' },
                require => Class["xfce"],
        }

However, when I try this with libreoffice I run into a series of 
dependecy problems that do not occur when installing manually with "apt-
get install -t wheezy-backports libreoffice".

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Jaap

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Hi folks,

When my initial attempt to install libreoffice via wheezy-backports 
didn''t work, I decided to take a less elegant approach:

  exec { "libreoffice-bpo":
    command => "/usr/bin/apt-get -t wheezy-backports libreoffice \
      --yes --force-yes",
    onlyif => "/usr/bin/test `/usr/bin/dpkg -l |/bin/grep \
      libreoffice |/bin/grep -c bpo` -lt 10",
    require => Class["spell"],
  }

Unfortunately even this doesn''t work, giving "returned 100 instead
of one
of [0]", seemingly as a result of the same dependency problem.

Moreover, instead of including just "libreoffice" in the apt-get
command
line, listing every one of the other packages to be installed makes no 
difference either.

Any ideas for a workaround?

Cheers,

Jaap

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On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 12:19:23 AM UTC+2, Jaap Winius
wrote:
>
> Hi folks, 
>
> When my initial attempt to install libreoffice via wheezy-backports 
> didn''t work, I decided to take a less elegant approach: 
>
Hi Jaap,

Did you try with:
provider => ''aptitude'',

    package { ''libreoffice'':
        ensure => installed,
        provider => ''aptitude'',
        install_options => { ''-t'' =>
''wheezy-backports'' },
    }

Best regards,
-- 
    Gonéri

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:53:15 -0700, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> Did you try with:
> provider => ''aptitude'',
> 
>     package { ''libreoffice'':
>         ensure => installed,
>         provider => ''aptitude'',
>         install_options => { ''-t'' =>
''wheezy-backports'' },
>     }
That works -- excellent! Thank you very much, Gonéri; that improves my 
puppet configuration considerably. :-)

Cheers,

Jaap

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On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:53:15 -0700, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote:
> provider => ''aptitude'',
> 
>     package { ''libreoffice'':
>         ensure => installed,
>         provider => ''aptitude'',
>         install_options => { ''-t'' =>
''wheezy-backports'' },
>     }
One small note. On subsequent runs of "puppet agent -t" the above 
configuration results in the following type of message for all of the 
wheezy-backports packages to install:

notice: /Package[libreoffice]/ensure: ensure changed ''1:3.5.4+dfsg2-0
+deb7u2'' to ''install''

This also slows down every single run of the Puppet client. Luckily, the 
fix is easy: just use "ensure => present," instead.

Cheers,

Jaap

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