add a fact which checks if java is installed?

Ohad

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:00 PM, michal ruzicka <michal.r...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All,
> I would like to use puppet to install a tool which requires java on a
> linux machine. I could do that quite easily by depending on a specific
> java package (say OpenJDK), then I would simply do:
>
>    package { "java-1.6.0-openjdk":
>        ensure => installed
>    }
>
>    ... {
>        require => Package["java-1.6.0-openjdk"]
>    }
>
> But as the tool is pretty basic and can be run with just about any
> java 1.5 implementation around, I would prefer not to install the
> OpenJDK if there is already any other java 1.5 (even gcj) installed on
> the target machine.
>
> What would be the best approach to achieve that with puppet?
>
> I should add that I'm quite new to puppet, so please bear with me if
> the solution is obvious ...
>
> Thanks,
> Michal
>
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