gotmax23.packman

Ansible Role: Packman

This Ansible role installs the Packman repository on OpenSUSE Leap and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

Beta Notice

This role is in beta and not meant for production. Be aware that updates may cause changes, so read the release notes.

Requirements

This role relies on certain collections that are not part of ansible-core.

To install the required collections, create a requirements.yml file with these contents:

---
collections:
  - name: community.general

If you are using ansible-base/ansible-core 2.10 or later, run:

ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml

For Ansible 2.9, use:

ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml

Role Variables

Here are the role's variables and their default values found in defaults/main.yml. You can modify these to change how the role works.

---
# Options:
# - `present` makes sure the Packman repository is installed.
# - `absent` makes sure the Packman repository is not installed.
packman_state: present

# List of mirrors can be found at http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors
# The default is from the [OpenSUSE Wiki][2].
packman_mirror: "https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/packman"

# Check the Packman RPM repository signing key's fingerprint before importing it.
packman_check_key_fingerprint: true

[1]: http://packman.links2linux.org/mirrors

[2]: https://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories

Example Playbook

Here's how to set up the Packman Repository:

---
- name: Set up Packman Repository
  hosts: all
  become: true

  tasks:
    - name: Set up Packman Repository
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: gotmax23.packman

Compatibility

This role is tested with the latest version of ansible-core and the latest collections from Ansible Galaxy. This is the supported version of Ansible for this role. Other versions may work but are not officially supported.

This role works with the following distributions: