Problems with Fact returning the version of an installed RPM.

[Richie Rees]

Hi,

Have written what I think is a simple fact to return the version of an installed RPM, but when I use the returned variable its blank so perhaps someone can point me in the write direction, or somone might know a better way to do this. Here is the fact :-

require 'facter'

Facter.add('rpmbversion') do

  setcode do

    Facter::Util::Resolution.exec("rpm -qia rpm_name | grep Version | sed 's/Version     : //g' |cut -f1-5 -d' '")

  end

end

Thanks in Advance :)

Richie.

[Dan White]

http://www.rpm.org/wiki/Docs/QueryFormat

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{version}\n' rpm_name

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[Richie Rees]

Thanks Ygor, gold stars for you and pints of beer, unfortunately this still doesn't return the version to the fact. Do i have to pass the resulting string to a variable and then pass the variable back ? 

[Dan White]

OK.  Time for a possibly silly question:

How are you getting the name of the RPM into the Ruby code ?

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[Jacob Fleming-Gale]

Hi Richie,

Using the iptables_version fact thats part of the puppetlabs firewall module, you can tweak that to change the command to return the rpm version as in Dan's example.

The below code will return the full version string for the sqlite rpm

Jacob

Facter.add(:sqlite_version) do

  confine :kernel => :linux

  setcode do

    version = Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('rpm -q --qf \'%{version}-%{release}-%{arch}\' sqlite')

    if version

      version.match(/^\d+.*$/).to_s

    else

      nil

    end

  end

end

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