CDIST-TYPE__PACKAGE(7)

NAME
cdist-type__package_yum - Manage packages with yum

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".

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

None

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

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

SEE ALSO

    • cdist-type(7)

    • cdist-type__package(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).

AUTHOR

Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>
    Author.