Rudder

The problem is that "Package management for Debian / Ubuntu / APT systems" is not able to manage packages with backport repositories.
APT needs to be configured in order to use backports by default. For example, adding a file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/myconf containing:

APT::Default-Release "wheezy-backports";

I see two options:
- Add new version of "APT package manager configuration" to add custom configuration into APT (a textbox where options could be added into /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99rudder). It seems to me that this is the simpliest way and it's flexible.
- Add new version of "Package management for Debian / Ubuntu / APT systems" to add an option if we want to use a backport or not. It seems to me that this is more complex as different package_method would be used in function of being installed by backport or not.

What's your opinion Jon ?

I don't think it's a good idea to change the settings on hosts for apt via a config file. This could have undesired side effects.

However, using the "-t" option as in Olivier's example above looks great.

Sure, it would require a new package_method, but we could pass a parameter to the package method to specify the name to use.

I've made a Pull Request: https://github.com/Normation/rudder-techniques/pull/452

Jon, would you like to review it ?

Benoit, could you take a look at that one please (on 2.10).

Fixed in #10241 for the "Package" technique, closing.

It is now possible to pass arbitrary options to apt.