Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide :up2date, :parent => :rpm, :source => :rpm do desc "Support for Red Hat's proprietary `up2date` package update mechanism." commands :up2date => "/usr/sbin/up2date-nox" defaultfor :osfamily => :redhat, :lsbdistrelease => ["2.1", "3", "4"] confine :osfamily => :redhat # Install a package using 'up2date'. def install up2date "-u", @resource[:name] unless self.query raise Puppet::ExecutionFailure.new( "Could not find package #{self.name}" ) end end # What's the latest package version available? def latest #up2date can only get a list of *all* available packages? output = up2date "--showall" if output =~ /^#{Regexp.escape @resource[:name]}-(\d+.*)\.\w+/ return $1 else # up2date didn't find updates, pretend the current # version is the latest return @property_hash[:ensure] end end def update # Install in up2date can be used for update, too self.install end end