From fe39aade2aa6c4203e0e9e75e5fb4d73fac9e8df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gareth J. Greenaway" <gareth@wiked.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 08:47:40 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Allow the version argument for the pkg state to accept the
 "latest" as a value.  If specified then the latest version available will be
 installed.  Per #19291

---
 salt/states/pkg.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/salt/states/pkg.py b/salt/states/pkg.py
index 7af195b4ec..6ddb5aa5f9 100644
--- a/salt/states/pkg.py
+++ b/salt/states/pkg.py
@@ -801,6 +801,9 @@ def installed(
     if not isinstance(version, string_types) and version is not None:
         version = str(version)
 
+    if version is not None and version == 'latest':
+        version = __salt__['pkg.latest_version'](name)
+
     kwargs['allow_updates'] = allow_updates
     result = _find_install_targets(name, version, pkgs, sources,
                                    fromrepo=fromrepo,