Re: Using cfengine to manage /etc/apt/preferences

[christian pearce]

If you give me more background I might be able to help.  What is wrong
with editfiles?  Or perl s///?

On 2/20/06, Robert Lazzurs <lazzurs@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/20/06, Robert Lazzurs <lazzurs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I am having trouble finding a way to manage the apt pin preferences
> > file from cfengine (/etc/apt/preferences)
>
> (Sorry about the above post, gmail and opera do not work well together
> it appears)
>
> I current have a few classes defined for each application 'pool' eg
> app_mysql5 for servers that require mysql 5 and app_php4 for servers
> that require php 4.
>
> However for this to work I need to change the pin priority for the
> repos that these apps come from as below.
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release c=php4
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release c=mysql5
> Pin-Priority: 1001
>
> I would like to find some way to manage this through cfengine, however
> I cannot find a solution yet and was wondering if any one on this list
> could provide a suggestion.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
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Christian Pearce