Description

Manages Perl installation and provides cpan_module, to install modules from... CPAN.

Requirements

Platform:

• Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
• RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Oracle/Fedora
• ArchLinux
• Windows

Attributes

• perl['packages'] - platform specific packages installed by default recipe

• perl['cpanm']['path'] - platform specific path for cpanm binary to live

• perl['cpanm']['url'] - URL to download cpanm script from

• perl['cpanm']['checksum'] - checksum for the above remote file

Usage

To install a module from CPAN:

cpan_module "App::Munchies"

Optionally, installation can forced with the 'force' parameter.

cpan_module "App::Munchies"
  force true
end

License and Author

Author:: Joshua Timberman (joshua@opscode.com) Copyright:: 2009, Opscode, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.