CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user278530
user278530

Reputation: 83

How to check for installed package in Puppet?

I'm downloading a RPM using wget and I want to check if the package is installed before I download it. I'm not using a RPM repo, so I can't just do

package { ...
  ensure => installed
}

How can I do something like:

if HOW_TO_CHECK_IF_PACKAGE_X_IS_INSTALLED
   ... do wget etc.

Before someone asks, this didn't work for me: Puppet - test if a package already defined?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4734

Answers (2)

user278530
user278530

Reputation: 83

The solution was a custom facter:

require"puppet"
module Puppet::Parser::Functions
  newfunction(:package_installed, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
    packageName = args[0]
    return system "rpm --quiet -q #{packageName}"
  end
end

Upvotes: 0

Peter Souter
Peter Souter

Reputation: 5190

If you're downloading an RPM and installing it, you could do so like this:

package { 'foo':
  ensure   => installed,
  provider => 'rpm',
  source   => 'http://example.com/foo.rpm',
}

Upvotes: 3

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