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cdist-type__package_yum

Manage packages with yum

Yum is usually used on the Fedora distribution to manage packages. If you specify an unknown package, yum will display the slightly confusing error message "Error: Nothing to do".

None

name

If supplied, use the name and not the object id as the package name.

state

Either "present" or "absent", defaults to "present"

url

URL to use for the package

# Ensure zsh in installed
__package_yum zsh --state present
# If you don't want to follow pythonX packages, but always use python
__package_yum python --state present --name python2
# Remove obsolete package
__package_yum puppet --state absent
__package epel-release-6-8 \
    --url http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

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Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).

Nico Schottelius <nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>

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