Packages

Synopsis

The dictionary cl_packages comprises managed packages (Linux or BSD) or BSD ports.

FreeBSD

Packages will be installed by default. If you want to install ports set

freebsd_install_method: ports

In this case, the default is to use packages

freebsd_use_packages: true

See the variables freebsd_pkgng_* in packages.yml. There are no defaults. If these variables are not defined, the options are omitted. See the module community.general.pkgng. For example, disable use_globs (default=true) if you want to use the packages in the form <pkg-origin>

freebsd_pkgng_use_globs: false

See also

FreeBSD. Add option use_globs to the module pkgng. #8632

Enable cached packages (default=false)

freebsd_pkgng_cached: true

This is especially useful when you install packages from a host in jails. For example,

freebsd_pkgng_delegate: iocage_host.example.com

In this case, you have to provide also freebsd_pkgng_jail.

Hint

See the examples in vbotka.freebsd

See also

The defaults of the Ansible module community.general.pkgng

snap

By default, snap packages won’t be installed or uninstalled if snap binary can’t be found in cl_snap_paths. If you want the role to fail when snap is missing set

cl_snap_missing_fatal: true

The variables cl_snap_missing_fatal, cl_snap_paths, cl_snap_patterns are declared in defaults/main.yml.

Parameters

Parameter

Type

Comments

name

list required

List of packages or BSD ports

module

string
Ansible module to manage packages.
choices: package, apt, yum, snap, pkgng
(default=package)

state

string
State of packages or BSD ports
(default=present)

.

.

<TBD: see tasks/packages.yml>

Examples

FreeBSD install Postfix package or port

[contrib/postfix/conf-light/packages.d/postfix.yml]

1---
2postfix:
3  module: pkgng
4  name:
5    - mail/postfix

Armbian package for Simple SMTP

[contrib/ssmtp/conf-light/packages.d/ssmtp.yml]

1---
2ssmtp:
3  module: pkgng
4  name:
5    - mail/ssmtp

Ubuntu delete snap packages

[contrib/ubuntu-snap-disable/conf-light/packages.d/snap-deinstall.yml]

 1---
 2snap_deinstall_list1:
 3  module: snap
 4  state: absent
 5  name:
 6    - chromium
 7    - core
 8    - core18
 9    - gnome-3-28-1804
10    - gtk-common-themes
11    - simplenote
12    - tusk
13#   - snapd
14#
15# msg: Ooops! Snap installation failed while executing 'sh -c "/usr/bin/snap remove chromium core
16# core18 gnome-3-28-1804 gtk-common-themes simplenote snapd tusk"', please examine logs and error
17# output for more details.
18# rc: 1
19# stderr: |-
20#   error: cannot remove "chromium", "core", "core18", "gnome-3-28-1804",
21#          "gtk-common-themes", "simplenote", "snapd", "tusk": snap "snapd" is not
22#          removable: remove all other snaps first

Ubuntu purge snapd package

[contrib/ubuntu-snap-disable/conf-light/packages.d/snapd.yml]

1---
2snap_deinstall_list2:
3  module: apt
4  state: absent
5  purge: true
6  name:
7    - snapd

See also