Ansible Role: Curl

• Designed for systems lacking Curl, or systems wanting a specific version of curl.
• Builds and Installs specified Curl from released source.
• Supports 20 different varieties of linux via Travis automated tests.

Requirements

None.

Role Variables

All of the variables associated to this role are controlled by source-builds only.

To enable a source-build, ensure the following is set to true, it is set to false by default.

Default installations with this role will accommodate the system's package manager of the supported system - apt-get, yum or dnf.

curl_buildfromsource: true

Additional installation flags are optional, to run these flags on configure, specify the flags as follows:

curl_configure_flags:
  - disable-shared
  - with-ssl

The above configuration will validate to the following:

./configure --disable-shared --with-ssl

As a result of failing travis tests the option to use a supported mirror is available.

To use one of the mirrors, specify the http/s address like this:

curl_source: http://curl.haxx.se/download

Select location to install temporary, or accept the default below:

curl_path: /tmp

Select which version to install, or accept the default below:

curl_version: "7.51.0"

Select which archive type to download/extract, or accept the default below:

curl_extension: "tar.gz"

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - fubarhouse.curl

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2016 by Karl Hepworth.