Re: Suggestions on Testing for Packages

[Russell Adams]

I wrote a module / shell script to do this, but I've never used it. ;]

I don't think you can test for specific versions, just a package name.

If its useful, let me know. Perhaps I'll post it to cfwiki.org if it
works properly.

module:apt_query
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#!/bin/sh

######################################################################
# $Id: apt_query,v 1.3 2004/11/27 20:48:53 root Exp $
#
# Module to query packages via apt-cache
#
# Return Classes:
#   AptQuery_Package_Installed         $Package is installed
#   AptQuery_Package_NotInstalled      $Package is not installed

MY_PACKAGE="$1"

/usr/bin/apt-cache show $MY_PACKAGE \
        | grep '^Status:.*ok installed' \
        && {
           echo "+AptQuery_${MY_PACKAGE}_Installed"
           exit
           }

echo "+AptQuery_${MY_PACKAGE}_NotInstalled"

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Russell

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:01:08AM -0500, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:
> Has anyone come up with a method they would be willing to describe or 
> share on how I can use cfengine to determine if a package is installed 
> on a debian host with dpkg, or solaris with pkginfo?    Eventually I'm going 
> to have 
> to figure out how to do this, and was wondering how others have worked on 
> this?   I have to check for packages on a regular basis.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> Brian Seppanen
> seppy@chartermi.net
> 608.826.1464
> 
> 
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