Re: [Pkgutil-users] pkgutil package install/available mismatch

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Rob Ruma <rr...@fa...> wrote:
> Here's a scenario:
>
> I have 10 packages in my puppet manifest I need to make sure are installed.
>
> Each time puppet runs on the client server, it uses pkgutil -c <pkg
> name> to check if that particular package is still installed. It runs
> this command for each package which results in overall slower
> performance for puppet opposed to using pkg-get for the package provider.

Ok, that's unfortunate since "pkgutil -c pkgname" does a full compare
and then just filters the output to match "pkgname". In the case of
puppet, a full compare is done for every package installed. I have no
idea how pkg-get does a compare.

I guess I could look into a compare option that is not just a filter
but instead only compares exactly your arguments. That would be
faster.

I don't use puppet, can you change between pkg-get and pkgutil and
different options yourself or is it "built-in" how it's used?

-- 
/peter