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Change the Package provider

Challenge

You want to change the default package provider for your systems.

Solution

# in your site.pp
Package { provider => "aptrpm" }

Explanation

Not all package providers are created equal. Some of them, as shown in the table under packages, have additional functionality that you may want. Changing the provider is simple, including a line like the above somewhere high up in your configuration file chain (such as site.pp) will ensure all the declared package types use the newly chosen provider.