am just curious as to why do you think that would be possible? Did you use some other "puppet type" to similarly obtain information? like get the size of a file, using File type?
Thanks, Mohamed. On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Jonathan Gazeley <jonathan.gaze...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > On 24/01/11 13:31, Felix Frank wrote: >> >> On 01/24/2011 02:07 PM, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is there a way to use the Package type to find the version number of an >>> installed RPM? >>> >>> I've consulted this page [1] and I can't see any documentation there >>> that says this might be possible. >>> >>> I want to simply query my package manager and ask which version of a >>> package is installed. I do not necessarily wish to ensure it is >>> upgraded, etc. >>> >>> I know it's possible to do this with an exec call to rpm or yum, but I >>> want to do it "properly" :) >>> >>> [1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/types/package.html >> >> Define "properly" :-) What is puppet supposed to do with this piece of >> information? Log it somewhere? > > I want to place the version number in a variable, where it will be used to > do some post-install config that depends on the version number :) > > By "properly" I meant to avoid exec calls unless as a last resort. > > Cheers, > Jonathan > >> >> Regards, >> Felix >> > > > -- > ---------------------------- > Jonathan Gazeley > Systems Support Specialist > ResNet | Wireless & VPN Team > IT Services > University of Bristol > ---------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
