perl-Sysadm-Install
Typical installation tasks for system administrators
Have you ever wished for your installation shell scripts to run reproducibly, without much programming fuzz, and even with optional logging enabled? Then give up shell programming, use Perl. 'Sysadm::Install' executes shell-like commands performing typical installation tasks: Copying files, extracting tarballs, calling 'make'. It has a 'fail once and die' policy, meticulously checking the result of every operation and calling 'die()' immediately if anything fails. 'Sysadm::Install' also supports a _dry_run_ mode, in which it logs everything, but suppresses any write actions. Dry run mode is enabled by calling 'Sysadm::Install::dry_run(1)'. To switch back to normal, call 'Sysadm::Install::dry_run(0)'. As of version 0.17, 'Sysadm::Install' supports a _confirm_ mode, in which it interactively asks the user before running any of its functions (just like 'rm -i'). _confirm_ mode is enabled by calling 'Sysadm::Install::confirm(1)'. To switch back to normal, call 'Sysadm::Install::confirm(0)'. 'Sysadm::Install' is fully Log4perl-enabled. To start logging, just initialize 'Log::Log4perl'. 'Sysadm::Install' acts as a wrapper class, meaning that file names and line numbers are reported from the calling program's point of view.
GPL-1.0+ or Artistic-1.0