Consider using official packages

[jlecour]

Hi,

I've started using your role (thank your for sharing your work), and I've noticed that it is compiling Redis from sources. It's great if you want to have the latest (or a specific) version of it, but not so great when you want the packaged version from the distribution.

I've noticed that the Elasticsearch role is offering the possibility to use the package from the official repository, use a downloaded package or compile from source. It's definitely more complex to handle, but very good for the user, who is able to choose how he wants things to be installed.

Thanks again for sharing this 🙇

[DavidWittman]

@jlecour Agreed. I'll look into this. It gets a little hairy because there are differences in the packages between distributions too, but I can at least give a shot at baseline support for RHEL and Debian.

[DavidWittman]

https://github.com/ANXS/nginx/ does this too via the nginx_install_method variable.

[retr0h]

Any news on this? Would be helpful to install from package vs needing to compile.

[DavidWittman]

No news from my end, but I'd accept a PR which implements this via redis_install_method.

[smutel]

Hello,

I am interested to this feature. Could you please guide me ?

I don't find this parameter in the master branch. Is-it already merged ?
In addition I didn't find anything related to pieterlexis@8159f9f in the master ?

Thanks.