cdist-type__package_yum(7)

Overview

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

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Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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