Comment 2 for bug 1594576

Hi,
Thanks for the bug report and patch.
Why was package installation failing for you? Ideally that should not fail.

Second, I think i'd like to have the ability for 'install_packages' to take an option to not install package if the package exists already. Then, we could change the minion code to allow user-data to set that flag. I think ultimately, you would still normally want 'apt-get install <package>' to have run, since that would mean you had then gotten any security updates or other package fixes from the sources provided.