CDIST-TYPE__PACKAGE_YUM(7)

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version 7.0.0 · 8 versions
, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ cdist-type__package_yum ✨

ok so bestie, this is a cdist type page — it's cdist-type__package_yum from the cdist manual, and it's all about managing packages with yum. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So yum is the package manager that's usually doing its thing on the Fedora distribution, keeping packages in line. That's its whole job and honestly it's serving.

heads up bestie: if you hand yum a package name it doesn't know, it's gonna hit you with the slightly confusing error message "Error: Nothing to do". Like girl. that is not helpful. but that's what it says, so don't be surprised. 😭

🫶 REQUIRED PARAMETERS 🫶

None. literally nothing required, she's low maintenance. ✨

💖 OPTIONAL PARAMETERS 💖

  • name — if you supply this, it uses the name instead of the object id as the package name. iykyk.
  • state — either "present" or "absent". defaults to "present".
  • url — the URL to use for the package.

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

ok here's where it gets fun, look at these:

# 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

(and yes, the comment really does say "Ensure zsh in installed" — we're keeping it exactly as it is, no edits, periodt. 💀)

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read that one too, it's the main character of the package type family. 🦋

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

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

💜 COPYING 💜

Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

ungleich GmbH 2021

and that's the whole page bestie, no notes, we ate. 🍓

this was cdist manual version 7.0.0, dated Jul 31, 2022 — mwah, bye, go manage some packages 💅✨

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