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- Puppet Enterprise 2025.6.x, 2025.5.x, 2025.4.x, 2025.3.x, 2025.2.x, 2025.1.x, 2023.8.x, 2023.7.x, 2023.6.x, 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x
- Puppet >= 8.0.0 < 9.0.0
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Choria Package Agent
The package agent that lets you install, uninstall, update, purge and query the status of packages on your system.
This agent can be extended to support different Package managers, by default it uses Puppet. See the section later in this document about extendibility.
Actions
This agent provides the following actions, for details about each please run mco plugin doc agent/package
- apt_checkupdates - Check for APT updates
- apt_update - Update the apt cache
- checkupdates - Check for updates
- count - Get number of packages installed
- install - Install a package
- md5 - Get md5 digest of list of packages installed
- purge - Purge a package
- refresh - Update the available packages cache
- search - Search package manager for package availability
- status - Get the status of a package
- uninstall - Uninstall a package
- update - Update a package
- yum_checkupdates - Check for YUM updates
- yum_clean - Clean the YUM cache
Installation
This agent is installed by default as part of the Choria Orchestrator.
Configuration
There is one plugin configuration setting for the package agent.
- provider - The Util class that implements the install, uninstall, purge, update and status behavior. Defaults to 'puppet'
General provider configuration options can then also be set in the config file.
mcollective_agent_package::config:
provider: puppet
puppet.allowcdrom: true
Authorization
By default the Action Policy system is configured to only allow status and count and md5
actions from all users. These are read only and does not expose secrets.
Follow the Choria documentation to configure your own policies either site wide or per agent.
If you do configure any Policies specific to this module these defaults will be overriden when done using Hiera.
An example policy can be seen here:
mcollective_agent_package::policies:
- action: "allow"
callers: "choria=manager.mcollective"
actions: "install update uninstall purge"
facts: "*"
classes: "*"
Usage
% mco rpc package install package=nano
* [ ============================================================> ] 4 / 4
Summary of Ensure:
2.0.9-7.el6 = 4
Finished processing 4 / 4 hosts in 18176.83 ms
% mco package nano uninstall
* [ ============================================================> ] 4 / 4
Summary of Ensure:
absent = 4
Finished processing 4 / 4 hosts in 393.68 ms
% mco rpc package install package=openssl version=0.9.8k-7ubuntu8
* [ ============================================================> ] 4 / 4
Summary of Ensure:
0.9.8k-7ubuntu8 = 4
Finished processing 4 / 4 hosts in 18176.83 ms
Data Plugin
The Package agent also supplies a data plugin which uses the Package agent to check the current status of a package. The data plugin will set installed to true/false if the package is not installed or not, and will set status to the currently installed version if it is present and can be used during discovery or any other place where the MCollective discovery language is used.
mco rpc rpcutil ping -S "package('mypackage').installed=false"
mco rpc rpcutil ping -S "package('mypackage').status=3.2-1"
Extending
The default package agent achieves platform portability by using the Puppet provider system to support package managers on all platforms that Puppet supports.
If however you are not a Puppet user or simply want to implement some new method of package management you can do so by providing your own backend provider for this agent.
The logic for the Puppet version of this agent is implemented in
Util::Package::PuppetPackage, you can create a custom package implementation
that overrides #install, #uninstall, #update, #purge and #status.
This agent defaults to Util::Package::PuppetPackage but if you have your own
you can configure it in the config file using:
mcollective_agent_package::config:
provider: puppet
There is an example YumPackage that manages YUM based systems without Puppet
that you can look to for an example.
Changelog
Change history for choria/mcollective_agent_package
5.5.1
Released 2024-08-26
- Support latest ruby and use new module layout
5.4.1
Release 2024-02-04
- Ruby 3.2 support
5.4.0
Released 2021-11-07
- Run the purge action for uninstalled packages (#25)
5.3.0
Release 2020-07-07
- Improve handling of operating systems that does not report architecture in packages
- Improve handling absent and purged packages
- Add a refresh action to update available package list (#23)
- Add FreeBSD pkg support (#21)
5.2.0
Release 2019-11-26
- Fix return value for apt_update (#11)
- Add the ability to search for available packages (#15)
5.1.0
Release 2018-12-01
- Add support for checking updates via the
mco packagecli tool (#22)
5.0.1
Released 2018-04-20
- Include JSON DDL files
- Add Licencing files and contribution guidelines
5.0.0
Released 2018-02-27
- Add default action policies (1)
- Fork from Puppet Inc
4.7.0
- Fix the package data provider when checking for installed packages (MCOP-609)
- Allow additional yum and apt operations via the client, as noted in
mco package --help(MCOP-607)
4.6.0
- Add count and md5 methods (MCOP-593)
4.5.0
- Fix a bug when no version is passed to the agent (PR#23)
- Add a data plugin for package status (PR#25)
4.4.0
- Add zypper provider for SLES (MCOP-224)
- Add a version option to the install action (PR#1, PR#14)
- Add a yum provider for RedHat variants (PR#3, PR#15)
4.3.1
Released 2014-06-18
- Test more carefully for the windows provider to avoid breaking chocolatey (MCOP-18)
- Updated packaging metadata to build for RHEL7 and Ubuntu Trusty (MCOP-69)
- Handle empty response sets more gracefully (MCOP-55)
4.3.0
Released 2014-03-10
- Fix uninstall action on Windows systems (MCOP-14)
4.2.2
Released 2014-01-28
- Allow uninstall action to work with Puppet 3.4 and newer (MCOP-2)
4.2.1
Released 2014-01-02
- Allow agent to work with Puppet 3.4 (MCO-144)
4.2.0
Released 2013-03-04
- Remove Package agent data plugin (19563)
4.1.0
Released 2013-02-21
- Allow application parameters to be passed as either
action packageorpackage action(19371)
4.0.0
Released 2013-02-14
- Rewrite and publish package agent (18772)
Dependencies
- choria/mcollective (>= 0.14.5 < 2.0.0)
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