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

[Rob R. <rr...@fa...>]

I would rather do the full compare for sake of accuracy. I see the value
in keeping that functionality intact. It would be nice if it was faster.

I can switch between pkg-get and pkgutil in puppet but I have a second
repo configured in the configuration and pkg-get doesn't support
multiple repos or repos over https.

Rob Ruma
Harvard University
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS)
UNIX IT Systems

Peter Bonivart wrote:
> 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?
>