Re: method to check for package installation

[Phil D'Amore]

Probably the easiest way to do this is something like this within cfengine:

packages:
   <package_name>   elsedefine=need_package


shellcommands:
   need_package::
      "your favorite install command here"

This really works best with something that solves dependancies, like 
up2date, yum, or <insert favorite tool here>.  Using rpm by itself works 
well only if you can be sure that the rpm command you fire off includes 
all the packages to solve deps on a single command line.  Check the 
packages docs for other options like version checks.

I'm supposed to be coming up with an option to packages that will just 
automatically install the package, but alas, my employer has had other 
plans for my time lately...

Tim Nelson wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Graham Allan wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I'm trying to write a method file to check if a particular RPM package
> > is installed, and if not, install it.
> >    
>
> 	Is there some particular reason you aren't using RPM's built-in 
> functionality?  rpm -i and rpm -U both do this.  
>
>         :)
>
>  

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