cdist-type__package

cdist-type__package_yum(7)

Nico Schottelius

<nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>

Table of Contents

1. NAME
2. DESCRIPTION
3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS
4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
5. EXAMPLES
6. SEE ALSO
7. COPYING

1. NAME

cdist-type__package_yum - Manage packages with yum

2. DESCRIPTION

Yum is usually used on the Fedora distribution to manage packages. If you specify an unknown package, yum will display the slightly confusing error message "Error: Nothing to do".

3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS

None

4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

name: If supplied, use the name and not the object id as the package name.
state: Either "present" or "absent", defaults to "present"
url: URL to use for the package

5. EXAMPLES

# Ensure zsh in installed
__package_yum zsh --state present

# If you don't want to follow pythonX packages, but always use python
__package_yum python --state present --name python2

# Remove obsolete package
__package_yum puppet --state absent

__package epel-release-6-8 \
    --url http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm