Issue #21133 has been updated by Josh Cooper.

Description updated
Status changed from Accepted to Needs More Information

As much as I would like to do this, I don't see how. In puppet, a versionable 
package provider must be able to report on the version that is installed, as 
well as install a particular version of a package. But windows doesn't have a 
central package repo from which to install a specific version. Instead, you 
have to specify *the* version to install via the `source` parameter.

A secondary issue is that windows packages are supposed to store the installed 
version in the registry (under `DisplayVersion`) in the registry but it's not 
required.

If anyone has ideas about this, I'm all ears.

With that said, there is a versionable windows package provider 
<https://github.com/chocolatey/puppet-chocolatey> built around 
[chocolatey](http://chocolatey.org/). It adds metadata around package versions 
and where to retrieve them from. Check it out.

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Feature #21133: Add versionable feature to windows package provider
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/21133#change-92639

* Author: matt f
* Status: Needs More Information
* Priority: Normal
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* Category: 
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package provider on windows does not report package version:

<pre>
C:\marionette-collective\bin>puppet resource package Puppet
package { 'Puppet':
  ensure => 'installed',
}
</pre>

On linux the version is reported:
<pre>
# puppet resource package puppet
package { 'puppet':
  ensure => '3.2.1-1.el6',
}
</pre>

This above example is on puppet for windows version 3.2.1


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