Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide :aptitude, :parent => :apt, :source => :dpkg do desc "Package management via `aptitude`." has_feature :versionable commands :aptitude => "/usr/bin/aptitude" commands :aptcache => "/usr/bin/apt-cache" ENV['DEBIAN_FRONTEND'] = "noninteractive" def aptget(*args) args.flatten! # Apparently aptitude hasn't always supported a -q flag. args.delete("-q") if args.include?("-q") args.delete("--force-yes") if args.include?("--force-yes") output = aptitude(*args) # Yay, stupid aptitude doesn't throw an error when the package is missing. if args.include?(:install) and output =~ /Couldn't find any package/ raise Puppet::Error.new( "Could not find package #{self.name}" ) end end def purge aptitude '-y', 'purge', @resource[:name] end end