Re: cfengine Debian apt-get

[Sami J. Mäkinen]

Pe5kyTac0 wrote:
> What I don't see is a way to run the following in cfengine

> if apt-show-versions | grep "portmap" then
> apt-get remove portmap
> fi

Of course you can, e.g.

shellcommands:
  any::
    "/bin/sh -c 'apt-show-versions | grep $(dblquote)portmap$(dblquote) && (apt-get 
remove portmap)'" timeout=60

The key here is || and && notation of the shell.
We are using apt-get and yam repository to install things on
RHEL3 machines that use rpm natively, like this:

shellcommands:
  any::
    "/bin/sh -c 'rpm -q --quiet compat-db || (apt-get update; apt-get -y install 
compat-db)'" timeout=60
    "/bin/sh -c 'rpm -q --quiet lynx || (apt-get update; apt-get -y install 
lynx)'" timeout=60

If you can ask apt-show-versions to tell only the version of
a given package, I would prefer that. You are now dumping
names and versions of all installed software to grep.
As you see, I am not familiar with apt-show-versions
since we use rpm with apt-get here.

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