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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2014-03-30	(MODULES-603) Add defaults arguments to ensure_packages()	Yanis Guenane
	Without this patch one can not specify package resource specific parameters. All the ensure_packages() function does it makes sure the named packages are installed. This patch allows one to pass default as a second argument and allow greater flexibility on packages installations. Use case like the following are now possible : * ensure_packages(['r10k', 'serverspec'], {'provider' => 'gem'}) * ensure_packages(['ntp'], {'require' => 'Exec[foobar]'})
2014-01-15	(maint) refactor ensure_packages for clarity	Adrien Thebo

2014-01-15	Allow a single argument, rather than an array	Tomas Doran

2012-11-27	Add an ensure_packages function.	Chad Metcalf
	Its often the case that modules need to install a handful of packages. In some cases its worth breaking these dependencies out into their own modules (e.g., Java). In others it makes more sense to keep them in the module. This can be problematic when multiple modules depend on common packages (git, python ruby, etc). ensure_resource was a good first step towards solving this problem. ensure_resource does not handle arrays and for 3 or more packages stamping out ensure_resource declarations is tedious. ensure_packages is a convenience function that takes an array of packages and wraps calls to ensure_resource. Currently users cannot specify package versions. But the function could be extended to use a hash if that functionality would be useful.