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Installing Packages
Installing packages is easy. You can use the pkg function for this.
use Rex -feature => ['1.0'];
user "root";
password "f00b4r";
task "prepare_system",
group => "frontends",
sub {
pkg "apache2", ensure => "present";
};If you have to install multiple packages you can use an array so that you don't have to write that much.
use Rex -feature => ['1.0'];
user "root";
password "f00b4r";
task "prepare_system",
group => "frontends",
sub {
pkg [ "apache2", "libphp5-apache2", "mysql-server" ], ensure => "present";
};If you need to write a distribution independent module you can also use the case statement.
user Rex -base;
user "root";
password "f00b4r";
task "prepare_system",
group => "frontends",
sub {
my $packages = case operating_system,
Debian => [ "apache2", "libphp5-apache2" ],
CentOS => [ "httpd", "php5" ],
pkg $packages, ensure => "present";
};