Issue #12179 has been updated by Peter Burkholder.

Minimum versions would help write portable modules.  For example, I just used 
James Turnbull's sensu module, and got bit because the latest redis version in 
Ubuntu Lucid was version 1.2, and anything greater than 2.0 is needed for 
proper functioning. 

If there's some simple idiom to assure failure if no suitable package is 
available, that would suffice.
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Feature #12179: Package resource should allow ensure=>">1.0" or ensure=>"<0.10" 
as well as 'latest', 'installed' and specific version number
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12179#change-56870

Author: Steve Shipway
Status: Needs Decision
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Randall Hansen
Category: language
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 2.7.9
Keywords: 
Branch: 


It would be helpful if the 'ensure' parameter to the Package resrouce could 
also specify 'at least version **x**' and 'no later than version **y**' as well 
as 'latest version', 'installed' (IE, any version) or a specific version number.

EG:

    package { 'foo': ensure=>'>1.0' }

would act as 'latest' if the current package was uninstalled or version before 
1.0, but would act as 'installed' otherwise. Similarly, 

    package { 'foo': ensure=>'<4.0' }

would act as 'installed' if version is <4.0 but would produce an error 
otherwise.

This would allow us to set a manifest to avoid packages with known problems in 
a certain version, but not upgrade unless necessary. 


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