no provider options in package type

[Jayen]

Binary package hint: puppet

Hi, I'd like the ability, in a .pp file, to do something like:
  Package { provider => "aptitude" }
  package {
    "eclipse":
      provideroptions => ["--without-recommends"]
      ensure => latest;
  }

This could allow me to use aptitude to install packages with dependencies and recommendations, but install eclipse with just its dependencies and not its recommendations.

Thanks,
Jayen

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: puppetmaster 0.24.8-2ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en_GB:en_US:en
SourcePackage: puppet
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-15-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

If possible can you try this on karmic or even lucid?

Thanks
chuck

[Jayen (jayen)]

same on karmic. will not upgrade until november (and then, it will be 10.10)

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and has already been reported to the puppet upstream project:

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/915

http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1766

[William Van Hevelingen (blkperl)]

Both bug reports above have been marked as duplicates of

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4113