New packages: feature

[Allen Bettilyon]

Hello all,

So, I've been reading about the new packages: feature in cf, and have a
few questions/suggestion.


Would it be possible to define a general purpose install command?  It
seems rather tedious to define every rpm as follows:


packages:

  some_package  elsedefine=needs_some_package
  some_package2 elsedefine=needs_some_package2


shellcommands:
  needs_some_package::
        "/sbin/apt-get install some_package"

  needs_some_package2::
        "/sbin/apt-get install some_package2"




Perhaps a global install_package command where the name of the package
gets passed to the command?  This would work nicely for the currently
used package management systems such as apt or yum.  I envision
something like:



packages:


 class::

   pkgmgr = ( rpm )
   DefaultInstallCommand = ( /sbin/apt-get install )
   DefaultAction = ( install )
   
   package1
   package2
   packageN

   customPackage
        action=none   
        elsedefine=custom_install_method




shellcommands:

   custom_install_method:
       "..."





- Allen