GovReady installs openSCAP correctly X-Platform about govready HOT 2 CLOSED

Also small differences between RHEL and Fedora:

Fedora

yum install openscap openscap-utils openscap-content -y

RHEL

yum install openscap openscap-utils -y

as per http://www.open-scap.org/page/Download

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My plan is to use simple if/then/elif/else/fi statements within each function to manage different platforms.

The thinking comes from http://blog.backblaze.com/2008/12/15/10-rules-for-how-to-write-cross-platform-code/ which describes 10 rules for cross platform development, including don't port and using basic libraries. Although this approach violates the DRY (Do Not Repeat Yourself), it is also less simpler and more robust for each function to have its own checks. Some will feel this redundancy increases likelihood of error. The benefits, however, are that there will be reduced need to trace a function back to a variable; easier to hold code in the head; easier to deal with other special cases of the commands that come up; and easier to test and separate the code into multiple files later on.

example code (Probably I want to not set a variable but to execute actual command):

if which yum; then
        INSTALL="yum"
elif which apt-get; then
        INSTALL="apt-get"
else
        INSTALL="not defined"
fi
printf "command is ${INSTALL}\n"

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