From 8ba3a701fdcd11509acc032b0524e2e8c9e6857a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael V. O'Brien" <michael@reductivelabs.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 15:31:51 -0500
Subject: Fixed #838.  Applied patch provided by DavidS to add more robust
 update functionality to the dpkg provider.

---
 lib/puppet/provider/package/dpkg.rb | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/puppet/provider/package/dpkg.rb b/lib/puppet/provider/package/dpkg.rb
index 44e6a985c..512170a73 100755
--- a/lib/puppet/provider/package/dpkg.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/provider/package/dpkg.rb
@@ -56,9 +56,18 @@ Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide :dpkg, :parent => Puppet::Provider::Package
         dpkg "-i", file
     end
 
+    def update
+        self.install
+    end
+
     # Return the version from the package.
     def latest
         output = dpkg_deb "--show", @resource[:source]
+        matches = /^(\S+)\t(\S+)$/.match(output).captures
+        unless matches[0].match(@resource[:name])
+            Puppet.warning "source doesn't contain named package, but %s" % matches[0]
+        end
+        matches[1]
     end
 
     def query
-- 
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