Version information
This version is compatible with:
- Puppet Enterprise 2023.8.x, 2023.7.x, 2023.6.x, 2023.5.x, 2023.4.x, 2023.3.x, 2023.2.x, 2023.1.x, 2023.0.x, 2021.7.x, 2021.6.x, 2021.5.x, 2021.4.x, 2021.3.x, 2021.2.x, 2021.1.x, 2021.0.x
- Puppet >= 7.0.0 < 9.0.0
- , , , , , , ,
Tasks:
- package
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Add this module to your Puppetfile:
mod 'puppetlabs-package', '3.0.1'
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package
Table of Contents
Overview
This module provides the package task.
Description
This task allows you to install, uninstall, update, and check the status of packages.
Setup
Requirements
This module is compatible with Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Bolt.
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To run tasks with Puppet Enterprise, PE 2018.1 or later must be installed on the machine from which you are running task commands. Machines receiving task requests must be Puppet agents.
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To run tasks with Puppet Bolt, Bolt 1.0 or later must be installed on the machine from which you are running task commands. Machines receiving task requests must have SSH or WinRM services enabled.
Usage
To view the available actions and parameters, on the command line, run puppet task show package
or see the package module page on the Forge.
For a complete list of optional package providers that are supported, see the Puppet Types documentation.
To run a package task, use the task command, specifying the action and the name of the package.
To show help for the task CLI, run puppet task run --help
or bolt task run --help
- With PE on the command line, run
puppet task run package action=<ACTION> name=<PACKAGE_NAME>
. - With Bolt on the command line, run
bolt task run package action=<ACTION> name=<PACKAGE_NAME>
.
For example, to check whether the vim package is present or absent, run:
- With PE, run
puppet task run package action=status name=vim --nodes neptune
. - With Bolt, run
bolt task run package action=status name=vim --nodes neptune --modulepath ~/modules
.
You can also run tasks in the PE console. See PE task documentation for complete information.
Reference
For information on the classes and types, see the REFERENCE.md.
Limitations
For an extensive list of supported operating systems, see metadata.json
License
This codebase is licensed under the Apache2.0 licensing, however due to the nature of the codebase the open source dependencies may also use a combination of AGPL, BSD-2, BSD-3, GPL2.0, LGPL, MIT and MPL Licensing.
Development
Tests are ran using puppet_litmus. To run the acceptance tests follow the instructions from this point here.
Puppet modules on the Puppet Forge are open projects, and community contributions are essential for keeping them great. To contribute to Puppet projects, see our module contribution guide.
Reference
Table of Contents
Tasks
init
: Manage and inspect the state of packageslinux
: Manage and inspect the state of packages (without a puppet agent)windows
: Manage the state of packages (without a puppet agent)
Tasks
init
Manage and inspect the state of packages
Supports noop? false
Parameters
action
Data type: Enum[install, status, uninstall, upgrade]
The operation (install, status, uninstall and upgrade) to perform on the package.
name
Data type: String[1]
The name of the package to be manipulated.
version
Data type: Optional[String[1]]
Version numbers must match the full version to install, including release if the provider uses a release moniker. Ranges or semver patterns are not accepted except for the gem package provider. For example, to install the bash package from the rpm bash-4.1.2-29.el6.x86_64.rpm, use the string '4.1.2-29.el6'.
manager_options
Data type: Optional[String[1]]
options to be sent to the package manager
provider
Data type: Optional[String[1]]
The provider to use to manage or inspect the package, defaults to the system package manager. Only used when the 'puppet-agent' feature is available on the target so we can leverage Puppet.
linux
Manage and inspect the state of packages (without a puppet agent)
Supports noop? false
Parameters
action
Data type: Enum[install, status, uninstall, upgrade]
The operation (install, status, uninstall and upgrade) to perform on the package.
name
Data type: String[1]
The name of the package to be manipulated.
manager_options
Data type: Optional[String[1]]
options to be sent to the package manager
version
Data type: Optional[String[1]]
Version numbers must match the full version to install, including release if the provider uses a release moniker. Ranges or semver patterns are not accepted except for the gem package provider. For example, to install the bash package from the rpm bash-4.1.2-29.el6.x86_64.rpm, use the string '4.1.2-29.el6'.
provider
Data type: Optional[String[1]]
The provider to use to manage or inspect the package, defaults to the system package manager. Only used when the 'puppet-agent' feature is available on the target so we can leverage Puppet.
windows
Manage the state of packages (without a puppet agent)
Supports noop? false
Parameters
action
Data type: Enum[install, uninstall, upgrade, status]
The action to be applied to the package: install, uninstall, upgrade, and status.
name
Data type: String[1]
The name of the package to manage.
version
Data type: Optional[String[1]]
The version, and if applicable, the release value of the package. A version number range or a semver pattern are not permitted. For example, to install the bash-4.1.2-29.el6.x86_64.rpm package, enter 4.1.2-29.el6.
What are tasks?
Modules can contain tasks that take action outside of a desired state managed by Puppet. It’s perfect for troubleshooting or deploying one-off changes, distributing scripts to run across your infrastructure, or automating changes that need to happen in a particular order as part of an application deployment.
Tasks in this module release
Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
v3.0.1 - 2024-03-01
Fixed
v3.0.0 - 2023-04-19
Changed
- (CONT-791) - Add Puppet 8/Drop Puppet 6 #307 (jordanbreen28)
v2.4.0 - 2023-04-19
Added
- Add Compatibility with FreeBSD #306 (smortex)
- Improve package status consistency on Debian #303 (smortex)
Fixed
- Fix shebangs #305 (smortex)
- Unset user-defined locale variables #304 (smortex)
- pdksync - (CONT-189) Remove support for RedHat6 / OracleLinux6 #292 (david22swan)
- pdksync - (CONT-130) - Dropping Support for Debian 9 #289 (jordanbreen28)
v2.3.0 - 2022-10-03
Added
- pdksync - (GH-cat-11) Certify Support for Ubuntu 22.04 #286 (david22swan)
- pdksync - (GH-cat-12) Add Support for Redhat 9 #285 (david22swan)
Fixed
- (MAINT) Drop support for windows server 2008 R2. #287 (jordanbreen28)
v2.2.0 - 2022-05-30
Added
- pdksync - (FM-8922) - Add Support for Windows 2022 #275 (david22swan)
- pdksync - (IAC-1753) - Add Support for AlmaLinux 8 #270 (david22swan)
- pdksync - (IAC-1751) - Add Support for Rocky 8 #269 (david22swan)
- Expose package manager options to task #265 (MartyEwings)
Fixed
- pdksync - (GH-iac-334) Remove Support for Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 #277 (david22swan)
- pdksync - (IAC-1787) Remove Support for CentOS 6 #273 (david22swan)
- pdksync - (IAC-1598) - Remove Support for Debian 8 #268 (david22swan)
v2.1.0 - 2021-08-16
Added
- pdksync - (IAC-1720) - Add Support for Ubuntu 20.04 #263 (david22swan)
- pdksync - (IAC-1709) - Add Support for Debian 11 #261 (david22swan)
- pdksync - (IAC-1719) - Add Support for Debian 10 #260 (david22swan)
v2.0.0 - 2021-03-02
Changed
- pdksync - Remove RHEL 5 family support #240 (sanfrancrisko)
- pdksync - Remove Puppet 5 from testing and bump minimal version to 6.0.0 #235 (carabasdaniel)
Fixed
v1.4.0 - 2020-12-09
Added
- pdksync - (feat) - Add support for Puppet 7 #224 (daianamezdrea)
- (MODULES-10842) - Allow version to be set when installing via init task #217 (david22swan)
Fixed
v1.3.0 - 2020-10-01
Added
- pdksync - (IAC-973) - Update travis/appveyor to run on new default branch
main
#208 (david22swan)
Fixed
v1.2.0 - 2020-06-26
Added
v1.1.0 - 2019-12-11
Added
- pdksync - "MODULES-10242 Add ubuntu14 support back to the modules" #167 (sheenaajay)
v1.0.0 - 2019-12-02
Changed
Added
- (FM-8692) - Addition of Support for CentOS 8 #161 (david22swan)
v0.7.0 - 2019-10-28
Added
- (BOLT-1525) Zypper implementation #143 (m0dular)
- (FM-8225) Convert to litmus testing #134 (sheenaajay)
v0.6.0 - 2019-06-13
Changed
- pdksync - (MODULES-8444) - Raise lower Puppet bound #123 (david22swan)
Added
- (FM-8156) Add Windows Server 2019 support #129 (eimlav)
- (FM-8044) Add Redhat8 support #128 (sheenaajay)
- (Bolt-1104) - Add linux package task uninstall #126 (m0dular)
Fixed
v0.5.0 - 2019-04-10
Added
- (SEN-795) Move extension metadata to init.json #119 (conormurray95)
- (SEN-795) Add discovery extension metadata #118 (conormurray95)
- (BOLT-1104) Unify task implementation output #117 (donoghuc)
Fixed
- (MODULES-8717) Fix for boltspec run dependancy issue #113 (HelenCampbell)
0.4.1 - 2019-01-09
Fixed
0.4.0 - 2019-01-08
Added
- (MODULES-8390) Enable implementations on the init task and hide others #96 (MikaelSmith)
Fixed
- pdksync - (FM-7655) Fix rubygems-update for ruby < 2.3 #97 (tphoney)
- (MODULES-8045) Fix apt-get upgrading everything when no version passed and apt is package manager. #92 (eoinmcq)
0.3.0 - 2018-09-28
Added
- pdksync - (FM-7392) - Puppet 6 Testing Changes #88 (pmcmaw)
- (DI-3260) Adding agentless windows task (for choco) #81 (HairyMike)
- (DI-2373) Adding agentless linux task #77 (tphoney)
- (FM-7263) - Addition of support for ubuntu 18.04 #70 (david22swan)
- [FM-7058] Addition of support for Debian 9 to package #69 (david22swan)
0.2.0 - 2018-03-05
0.1.5 - 2017-10-11
0.1.4 - 2017-10-10
0.1.3 - 2017-10-04
0.1.2 - 2017-09-21
0.1.1 - 2017-09-20
Fixed
0.1.0 - 2017-09-11
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