community.general.xbps module – Manage packages with XBPS

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.xbps.

Synopsis 

Manage packages with the XBPS package manager.

Parameters 

Parameter	Comments
name aliases: pkg, package list / elements=string	Name of the package to install, upgrade, or remove.
recurse boolean	When removing a package, also remove its dependencies, provided that they are not required by other packages and were not explicitly installed by a user. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
state string	Desired state of the package. Choices: `"present"` ← (default) `"absent"` `"latest"` `"installed"` `"removed"`
update_cache boolean	Whether or not to refresh the master package lists. This can be run as part of a package installation or as a separate step. Choices: `false` `true` ← (default)
upgrade boolean	Whether or not to upgrade whole system Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
upgrade_xbps boolean added in community.general 0.2.0	Whether or not to upgrade the xbps package when necessary. Before installing new packages, xbps requires the user to update the xbps package itself. Thus when this option is set to `false`, upgrades and installations will fail when xbps is not up to date. Choices: `false` `true` ← (default)

Attributes 

Attribute	Support	Description
check_mode	Support: full	Can run in `check_mode` and return changed status prediction without modifying target.
diff_mode	Support: none	Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in `check_mode`), when in diff mode.

Examples 

- name: Install package foo (automatically updating the xbps package if needed)
  community.general.xbps:
    name: foo
    state: present

- name: Upgrade package foo
  community.general.xbps:
    name: foo
    state: latest
    update_cache: true

- name: Remove packages foo and bar
  community.general.xbps:
    name:
      - foo
      - bar
    state: absent

- name: Recursively remove package foo
  community.general.xbps:
    name: foo
    state: absent
    recurse: true

- name: Update package cache
  community.general.xbps:
    update_cache: true

- name: Upgrade packages
  community.general.xbps:
    upgrade: true

- name: Install a package, failing if the xbps package is out of date
  community.general.xbps:
    name: foo
    state: present
    upgrade_xbps: false

Return Values 

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
msg string	Message about results Returned: success Sample: `"System Upgraded"`
packages list / elements=string	Packages that are affected/would be affected Returned: success Sample: `["ansible"]`

Authors

Dino Occhialini (@dinoocch)
Michael Aldridge (@the-maldridge)

community.general.xbps module – Manage packages with XBPS

Synopsis

Parameters

Attributes

Examples

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