Added a parameter that allow to precise package ensure

README.md

@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ Setting this to false will avoid the user resource to be created by this module.
 
 Setting this to false will avoid the group resource to be created by this module. This is useful when you already have a group created in another puppet module and that you want to used it for apache. Without this, it would result in a duplicate resource error. 
 
+#####`package_ensure`
+
+Allow control over the package ensure statement. This is useful if you want to make sure apache is always at the latest version or wheter it is only installed.
 
 ####Class: `apache::default_mods`
 

manifests/init.pp

@@ -48,10 +48,11 @@
   $ports_file           = $apache::params::ports_file,
   $server_tokens        = 'OS',
   $server_signature     = 'On',
+  $package_ensure       = 'installed',
 ) inherits apache::params {
 
   package { 'httpd':
-    ensure => installed,
+    ensure => $package_ensure,
     name   => $apache::params::apache_name,
     notify => Class['Apache::Service'],
   }

spec/classes/apache_spec.rb

@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
     end
     it { should include_class("apache::params") }
     it { should contain_package("httpd").with(
-      'notify' => 'Class[Apache::Service]'
+      'notify' => 'Class[Apache::Service]',
+      'ensure' => 'installed'
       )
     }
     it { should contain_user("www-data") }
@@ -133,7 +134,8 @@
     end
     it { should include_class("apache::params") }
     it { should contain_package("httpd").with(
-      'notify' => 'Class[Apache::Service]'
+      'notify' => 'Class[Apache::Service]',
+      'ensure' => 'installed'
       )
     }
     it { should contain_user("apache") }