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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";
};