spreadcat.newsboat

A Role that installs newsboat on the local system.

Requirements

• The newsboat package must be either available through the package system or available on the github repository.
• The role requires gathered_facts: true to be set.

Role Variables

newsboat_config: list

• List of entries for the configuration file for newsboat.

newsboat_package_version: str

• Newsboat version to install as a package. Defaults to newsboat_version.

newsboat_packages: list

• List of packages to install for newsboat.

newsboat_urls: list

• List of URL entries for the newsboat URL file.

Other Variables

newsboat_build: dict

• Dictionary with packages to install when building newsboat from the URL sources.

newsboat_directories: list

• List of directories required for newsboat to be installed.

newsboat_download_url: str

• URL for downloading newsboat when using newsboat_install_type: url.

newsboat_group: str

• Group-name of the group owning the newsboat configuration and URL files.

newsboat_home: str

• Path to the home directory of the user running newsboat.

newsboat_owner: str

• Username of the owner of the newsboat configuration and URL files.

Dependencies

• none

Example Playbook

Including an example of how to use your role (for instance, with variables passed in as parameters) is always nice for users too:

- hosts: servers
  vars:
    newsboat_config:
      - auto-reload no
      - cleanup-on-quit yes
    newsboat_urls:
      - 'http://githubengineering.com/atom.xml tech blog'
  roles:
     - role: spreadcat.newsboat

Limitations

The role does not support installation using snap. While this is available it seems that docker/podman containers to not support the required squashfs dependency.

License

BSD

Author Information

This role is developed and maintained by DBV (github@micronarrativ.org).