Merge pull request #248 from electrical/fix_params_fail

[puppet-modules/puppetlabs-apt.git] / manifests / init.pp

diff --git a/manifests/init.pp b/manifests/init.pp
index e4e43b178785b05207597cd8ebb8823480265896..517391535a931cf1ee6c3c39f03f8020341e6c3c 100644 (file)
--- a/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/manifests/init.pp
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
 #     to true, Puppet will purge all unmanaged entries from sources.list.d
 #   update_timeout - Overrides the exec timeout in seconds for apt-get update.
 #     If not set defaults to Exec's default (300)
+#   update_tries - Number of times that `apt-get update` will be tried. Use this
+#     to work around transient DNS and HTTP errors. By default, the command
+#     will only be run once.
 #
 # Actions:
 #
@@ -32,9 +35,14 @@ class apt(
   $purge_preferences    = false,
   $purge_preferences_d  = false,
   $update_timeout       = undef,
+  $update_tries         = undef,
   $sources              = undef
 ) {
 
+  if $::osfamily != 'Debian' {
+    fail('This module only works on Debian or derivatives like Ubuntu')
+  }
+
   include apt::params
   include apt::update