16.102. cdist-type__package_pacman(7)¶

16.102.1. NAME¶

cdist-type__package_pacman - Manage packages with pacman

16.102.2. DESCRIPTION¶

Pacman is usually used on the Archlinux distribution to manage packages.

16.102.3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS¶

None

16.102.4. 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"

16.102.5. EXAMPLES¶

# Ensure zsh in installed
__package_pacman zsh --state present

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

# Remove obsolete package
__package_pacman puppet --state absent

16.102.6. SEE ALSO¶

cdist-type__package(7)

16.102.7. AUTHORS¶

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

16.102.8. COPYING¶

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.