snack(~) % ruby puppet-package-over-ssh.rb snack apache2.2-common latest
Package[apache2.2-common] ensure => latest status: {:status=>"installed", :provider=>:apt, :error=>"ok", :desired=>"install", :name=>"apache2.2-common", :ensure=>"2.2.14-5ubuntu8.3"}

snack(~) % ruby puppet-package-over-ssh.rb snack sl latest
Package[sl] ensure => latest status: {:status=>"installed", :provider=>:apt, :error=>"ok", :desired=>"install", :name=>"sl", :ensure=>"3.03-16"}


# There's a bug where 'latest' seems to be ignored. If you try to use 'absent' it still installs anyway. I'm not familiar with puppet internals so this bug should be easy to fix.
snack(~) % ruby puppet-package-over-ssh.rb snack sl absent
Package[sl] ensure => absent status: {:status=>"installed", :provider=>:apt, :error=>"ok", :desired=>"install", :name=>"sl", :ensure=>"3.03-16"}