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dnfgroup

A package provider for DNF groups
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Version information

  • 0.2.1 (latest)
  • 0.2.0
  • 0.1.0
released Feb 19th 2018

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Add this module to your Puppetfile:

mod 'esm-dnfgroup', '0.2.1'
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Manually install this module globally with Puppet module tool:

puppet module install esm-dnfgroup --version 0.2.1

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esm/dnfgroup — version 0.2.1 Feb 19th 2018

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dnfgroup adds a package provider to puppet so you can manage DNF groups in a familar way:

package {
    'workstation-product-environment':
        ensure   => 'installed',
        provider => 'dnfgroup';
}

On Fedora, that will ensure that the "Fedora Workstation" environment group (group ID "workstation-product-environment") is installed, which will install any subgroups and individual packages.

This provider doesn't make any distinctions between different types of groups (groups, environment groups, language groups), as there appear to be no technical reasons to differentiate at the puppet level.

You can accomplish something very similar to what this provider does with the default dnf provider by using the group-id, prefixed by @, as the package name. However, the dnf provider won't register the group as installed, because it doesn't know about that particular magic syntax, so it will attempt to reinstall it with every run (even if that doesn't sound too bad, if you ensure => 'absent' a package that happens to be in that group, it will get installed and then immediately removed every run). This provider also allows you to refer to groups by their longer name (which are added as aliases), rather than by ID.

This is an unusual package provider, in that it doesn't support versions (since there's no versioning of DNF groups), and as a result, there's no support for upgrading (via ensure => 'latest'), because there's no easy way to determine if an upgrade is needed without actually testing the transaction, which is a very expensive check for something of fairly low utility (assuming you have an out-of-band mechanism for handling package upgrades).