16.117. cdist-type__package_yum(7)¶
16.117.1. NAME¶
cdist-type__package_yum - Manage packages with yum
16.117.2. 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".
16.117.3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS¶
None
16.117.4. 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"
- url
URL to use for the package
16.117.5. 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
__package epel-release-6-8 \
--url http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
16.117.6. SEE ALSO¶
cdist-type__package(7)
16.117.8. 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.