List of Packages installed with Salt?

[Todd Whitmarsh]

Hi Everyone, I was curious if there are packages pre-installed on a Stack minion by default. If so, is there a way to get details and names of the packages? For instance, say I was to install Apache on a Linux minion, is there a package  which already exists in Salt and if there is, how can I determine the exact name of the package, what the package does and the attributes to go along with the package? Thanks in advance.

            -Todd

[Tim O'Guin]

Generally, salt will use the distro's package manager if you use the pkg module.

http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.pkg.html

So on Debian, 'pkg.install apache2' will actually call 'apt.install apache2', which is calling 'apt-get install apache2' on the host. So packages are nothing special to Salt, although I suspect that will be changing as the salt-formulas and the salt package manager continue to be developed.

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Todd Whitmarsh <twhi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone, I was curious if there are packages pre-installed on a Stack minion by default. If so, is there a way to get details and names of the packages? For instance, say I was to install Apache on a Linux minion, is there a package  which already exists in Salt and if there is, how can I determine the exact name of the package, what the package does and the attributes to go along with the package? Thanks in advance.

            -Todd

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