community.general.pear module – Manage pear/pecl packages

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

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.pear.

Synopsis

  • Manage PHP packages with the pear package manager.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

executable

path

Path to the pear executable.

name

aliases: pkg

string / required

Name of the package to install, upgrade, or remove.

prompts

list / elements=any

added in community.general 0.2.0

List of regular expressions that can be used to detect prompts during pear package installation to answer the expected question.

Prompts are processed in the same order as the packages list.

You can optionally specify an answer to any question in the list.

If no answer is provided, the list item must contain only the regular expression.

To specify an answer, the item must be a dictionary with the regular expression as key and the answer as value my_regular_expression: 'an_answer'.

You can provide a list containing items with or without answer.

A prompt list can be shorter or longer than the packages list but it issues a warning.

If you want to specify that a package does not need prompts in the middle of a list, null.

state

string

Desired state of the package.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "installed"

  • "latest"

  • "absent"

  • "removed"

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 pear package
  community.general.pear:
    name: Net_URL2
    state: present

- name: Install pecl package
  community.general.pear:
    name: pecl/json_post
    state: present

- name: Install pecl package with expected prompt
  community.general.pear:
    name: pecl/apcu
    state: present
    prompts:
      - (.*)Enable internal debugging in APCu \[no\]

- name: Install pecl package with expected prompt and an answer
  community.general.pear:
    name: pecl/apcu
    state: present
    prompts:
      - (.*)Enable internal debugging in APCu \[no\]: "yes"

- name: Install multiple pear/pecl packages at once with prompts. Prompts will be processed on the same order as the packages
    order. If there is more prompts than packages, packages without prompts will be installed without any prompt expected.
    If there is more packages than prompts, additional prompts will be ignored.
  community.general.pear:
    name: pecl/gnupg, pecl/apcu
    state: present
    prompts:
      - I am a test prompt because gnupg doesnt asks anything
      - (.*)Enable internal debugging in APCu \[no\]: "yes"

- name: Install multiple pear/pecl packages at once skipping the first prompt. Prompts will be processed on the same order
    as the packages order. If there is more prompts than packages, packages without prompts will be installed without any
    prompt expected. If there is more packages than prompts, additional prompts will be ignored.
  community.general.pear:
    name: pecl/gnupg, pecl/apcu
    state: present
    prompts:
      - null
      - (.*)Enable internal debugging in APCu \[no\]: "yes"

- name: Upgrade package
  community.general.pear:
    name: Net_URL2
    state: latest

- name: Remove packages
  community.general.pear:
    name: Net_URL2,pecl/json_post
    state: absent

Authors

  • Jonathan Lestrelin (@jle64)