package

Package

A role for managing packages on different operating systems.

This role currently supports apt, yum, dnf, brew, zypper, pacman and portage. Feel free to send a pull or feature request to add your favorite package manager!

Attention:

This role handles name differences between package managers but not between distributions using the same package manager.
Test coverage is rather small so please do report bugs!

Requirements

Hosts should be bootstrapped for ansible usage (have python,...)
Root privileges, eg become: yes

Role Variables

Variable	Description	Default value
`package_list`	List of packages (see details!)	`[]`
`package_list_host`	List of packages (see details!)	`[]`
`package_list_group`	List of packages (see details!)	`[]`
`package_state`	Default package state	'present'
`package_update_cache`	Update the cache?	`yes`
`package_cache_valid_time`	How long is the package cache valid? (seconds)	3600

`package_list` details

package_list, package_list_host and package_list_group are merged when managing the packages. You can use the host and group lists to specify packages per host or group.

The package list allows you to define which packages must be managed. Each item in the list can have following attributes:

Variable	Description	required
`name`	Package name	yes
`state`	Package state	no
`apt`	Package name for apt	no
`apt_ignore`	Ignore package for apt	no
`apt_install_recommends`	Whether to install recommended dependencies apt	no
`yum`	Package name for yum	no
`yum_ignore`	Ignore package for yum	no
`dnf`	Package name for dnf	no
`dnf_ignore`	Ignore package for dnf	no
`brew`	Package name for brew	no
`brew_ignore`	Ignore package for brew	no
`zypper`	Package name for zypper	no
`zypper_ignore`	Ignore package for zypper	no
`pacman`	Package name for pacman	no
`pacman_ignore`	Ignore package for pacman	no
`portage`	Package name for portage	no
`portage_ignore`	Ignore package for portage	no

By default package_state and item.name are used when managing the packages. If however item.state is defined or a more specific package name (eg item.apt) these will be used instead. If you want a package to be ignored for some package managers you can add ***_ignore: yes.

`package_list` example

package_list:
  - name: package
  - name: package1
    state: absent
  - name: package2
    apt: package2_apt_name
  - name: package3
    apt_ignore: yes
    yum: package3_yum_name
    pacman: package3_pacman_name
    portage: package3_portage_name

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

---
- hosts: servers
  roles:
  - { role: GROG.package,
      become: yes,
        package_list: [
          { name: htop,
            brew: htop-osx },
          { name: tree }
        ]
    }