Wrong package installed with default repo on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

[AlexeyDemidov]

When installing from packages on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with default repo we get nodejs-4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu4.1 package from Ubuntu repo instead of deb.nodesource.com. The apt-cache policy nodejs output:

nodejs:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu4.1
  Version table:
     4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu4.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages
     4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu4 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
     0.10.46-1nodesource1~xenial1 500
        500 https://deb.nodesource.com/node xenial/main amd64 Packages

The fix is to set node['nodejs']['repo'] = 'https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x' (default repo is https://deb.nodesource.com/node)

[espoelstra]

An easy way to correct this is to specify a major version in the attributes/default.rb like default['nodejs']['version'] = '6' which will get interpolated into the URL and allow installing the intended version of NodeJS.

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[MarkGibbons]

Adding default repository as this cookbook does in the repo recipe seems to cause this issue. I believe the cookbook is working as designed ( the design may be bad but that's a separate issue.)