Re: Need assistance in determining if an rpm is installed

[Rune Mossige]

On (15/01/02 10:49), Adrian Phillips wrote:
> To: Rune Mossige <runemo@stavanger.geco-prakla.slb.com>
> Cc: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Need assistance in determining if an rpm is installed
> From: Adrian Phillips <a.phillips@dnmi.no>
> Date: 15 Jan 2002 10:49:23 +0100
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> >>>>> "Rune" == Rune Mossige <runemo@stavanger.Geco-Prakla.slb.com> writes:
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>     Rune> Hello, I am working on a stock RedHat 7.2 system, and I
>     Rune> would like to set up a section that will check if some
>     Rune> specific RPM's installed. And, if they are not there, the I
>     Rune> want to install them. I am using 2.0.a15.
> 
>     Rune> In my cfagent.conf file, I have:
> 
>     Rune> groups: linux:: have_openmotif-2_1_30-8 = ( "/bin/rpm -q
>     Rune> openmotif-2.1.30-8" )
> 
> I'm using 1.6 still but can you have have a class within a class,
> ie. linux:: in the groups section ?

I do not know for sure...I thought this was allowed? If not, how do I
then get different tests to run on different OS'es? Do You have a
suggestion of how to do this task in a different way?

I was thinking of skipping the groups stuff all-together, and just use a
shellcommands, behind a special class that was only executed during
system boot, e.g. /var/cfengine/bin/cfagent -DBOOT, so that new RPM's
are only installed during a system boot....but I still want to be able
to install a new rpm on a running system.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Adrian Phillips
> 
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