dotbot-ifplatform

Conditional execution of dotbot directives based on the local platform.

Prerequisites

This plugin requires dotbot to be installed.

Installation

1. Run git submodule add https://github.com/ssbanerje/dotbot-ifplatform.git
2. Run git submodule update --init --recursive
3. Pass in the CLI argument --plugin-dir dotbot-ifplatform when executing the dotbot executable.

Usage

Add the if<platform> directive to the dotbot YAML file to conditionally execute the directives. For example:

- ifubuntu:
    - apt:
        - ranger

- ifarch:
    - pacman:
        - ranger

- ifmacos:
    - brew:
        - ranger

Details

The plugin queries the local platform string using the distro plugin. Acceptable values of <platform> in the if<platform> directive is shown below:

<platform>	Description
anylinux	Any Linux in table
anybsd	Any BSD in table
macos	MacOS
windows	Windows
ubuntu	Ubuntu
debian	Debian
rhel	RedHat Enterprise Linux
centos	CentOS
fedora	Fedora
sles	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
opensuse	openSUSE
amazon	Amazon Linux
arch	Arch Linux
cloudlinux	CloudLinux OS
exherbo	Exherbo Linux
gentoo	GenToo Linux
ibm_powerkvm	IBM PowerKVM
kvmibm	KVM for IBM z Systems
linuxmint	Linux Mint
mageia	Mageia
mandriva	Mandriva Linux
parallels	Parallels
pidora	Pidora
raspbian	Raspbian
oracle	Oracle Linux (and Oracle Enterprise Linux)
scientific	Scientific Linux
slackware	Slackware
xenserver	XenServer
openbsd	OpenBSD
netbsd	NetBSD
freebsd	FreeBSD
midnightbsd	MidnightBSD

This list was generated using distro v1.6.0. There might be some differences based on the version of distro installed locally.