74. cdist-type__package_yum(7)¶

Manage packages with yum

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

74.1. 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”.

74.2. REQUIRED PARAMETERS¶

None

74.3. 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

74.4. 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

74.5. SEE ALSO¶

74.6. 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).