pin depending packages from squeeze for the bigcouch package

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/manifests/bigcouch/package/cloudant.pp b/manifests/bigcouch/package/cloudant.pp
index 88ee8da..e9c89f8 100644
--- a/manifests/bigcouch/package/cloudant.pp
+++ b/manifests/bigcouch/package/cloudant.pp
@@ -4,20 +4,27 @@ class couchdb::bigcouch::package::cloudant {
   # http://packages.cloudant.com/KEYS, please use the apt module to
   # distribute it on your servers after verifying its fingerprint
 
+  # cloudant's wheezy repo will fail cause in their Release file
+  # (http://packages.cloudant.com/debian/dists/wheezy/Release) they
+  # wrongly marked the packages for squeeze
+  # so we will use their squeeze repo here
   apt::sources_list {'bigcouch-cloudant.list':
     content => 'deb http://packages.cloudant.com/debian squeeze main'
   }
 
-  # right now, cloudant only provides authenticated ibigcouch 0.4.2 packages
-  # for squeeze, therefore we need to include squeeze repo for depending
-  # packages
+  # right now, cloudant only provides authenticated bigcouch 0.4.2 packages
+  # for squeeze, therefore we need to allow the installation of the depending
+  # packages libicu44 and libssl0.9.8 from squeeze
 
   if $::lsbdistcodename == 'wheezy' {
     apt::sources_list {'squeeze.list':
       content => 'deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze main
 deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
-',
+'   }
+    apt::preferences_snippet { 'bigcouch_squeeze_deps':
+      package  => 'libicu44 libssl0.9.8',
+      priority => '980',
+      pin      => 'release o=Debian,n=squeeze'
     }
   }
-
 }