[Distutils] Buildout recipe for managing .deb packages?

[Chris Withers]

Benji York wrote:
> [install-some-debs]
> recipe = iw.recipe.cmd
> on_install = true
> on_update = true
> cmds = apt-get install ...

If I understand the OP, he's deploying on debian and wants to be able to do:

bin/buildout

...to set up a whole machine.
I love that idea, and in that case, I'd want a recipe that looked like:

[debian-packages]
recipe = ...recipe.aptitude
packages =
   logwatch
   postfix
   subversion
   ...

...which would basically do:

sudo aptitude install

...for each package in the list.

Have I missed something?
If not, lemme know when the recipe is written ;-)

Chris

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