Update plugin if it already installed

[php-coder]

Jenkins 1.509.2 provided bundled javadoc plugin with version 1.0

When I want to update it to the latest version (or manually specify it):

class { 'jenkins':                                                                                  
  lts => 1
  repo => 1
  plugin_hash => {                                                                                  
    'javadoc' => { version => '1.1' }
  }
}

Plugin wasn't updated because code only checks if plugin presents or not. It would be better to also check installed version and update plugin if newer version requested.

[matthewbarr]

Yes, this is a limitation of the current way of doing plugins. We don't have any way to tell what version is installed.

I'm working on a full puppet package provider for Jenkins, but... I don't have much time right now to get it working.

I'm not sure the remote CLI will allow us to specify a version of a plugin, but I'm hopeful. There's a chance that some of this is possible via groovy scripts instead.

[jhoblitt]

This has been complimented for some time (several years it looks like).