[chef] Installing package on debian

[Geoff Meakin < >]

Hi all, I am on debian

doing:

package "foo" do
  action :install
end

works fine in most cases.

Some packages however (I read somewhere there are 8 of them?) seem to be 
critical/core packages and trying to uninstall them mean that the normal way 
of installing under the covers:
  apt-get -y 

just doesnt work.  upstart is such a package as it uninstalls sysvinit.

Is there a standard way of automatically installing this using chef?


If I had to do a commandline version I would do this:

yes "Yes, do as I say!" | apt-get -y --force-yes upstart

But then this deviates somewhat from the nicely distribution-agnostic package 
chef dsl


Thanks