cdist-type__package_yum(7)


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"

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

6. SEE ALSO

  • cdist-type(7)
  • cdist-type__package(7)

7. COPYING

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).