cdist-type__package_dpkg(7)

cdist-type__package_dpkg7

Manage packages with dpkg

Overview

This type is used on Debian and variants (like Ubuntu) to install packages that are provided locally as *.deb files.

The object given to this type must be the name of the deb package. The filename of the deb package has to follow Debian naming conventions, i.e. ${binary:Package}_${Version}_${Architecture}.deb (see dpkg-query(1) for details).

Optional parameters

state

present or absent, defaults to present.

Required parameters

source

path to the *.deb package

Boolean parameters

purge-if-absent

If this parameter is given when state is absent, the package is purged from the system (using --purge).

Explorer

pkg_state

Returns the full package name if package is installed, empty otherwise.

Messages

installed

The deb-file was installed.

removed (--remove)

The package was removed, keeping config.

removed (--purge)

The package was removed including config (purged).

Examples

# Install foo and bar packages
__package_dpkg foo_0.1_all.deb --source /tmp/foo_0.1_all.deb
__package_dpkg bar_1.4.deb --source $__type/files/bar_1.4.deb
# uninstall baz:
__package_dpkg baz_1.4_amd64.deb \
    --source $__type/files/baz_1.4_amd64.deb \
    --state "absent"
# uninstall baz and also purge config-files:
__package_dpkg baz_1.4_amd64.deb \
    --source $__type/files/baz_1.4_amd64.deb \
    --purge-if-absent \
    --state "absent"

Copying

Copyright (C) 2013 Tomas Pospisek. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This type is based on __package_apt.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13

Authors

Tomas Pospisek <[email protected]>
Thomas Eckert <[email protected]>

From cdist 7.0.0-5 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.