community.general.apt_repo – Manage APT repositories via apt-repo

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

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

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

Synopsis

• Manages APT repositories using apt-repo tool.

• See https://www.altlinux.org/Apt-repo for details about apt-repo

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
remove_others boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Remove other then added repositories Used if state=present
repo string / required		Name of the repository to add or remove.
state string	Choices: absent present ←	Indicates the desired repository state.
update boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Update the package database after changing repositories.

Notes

Note

• This module works on ALT based distros.

• Does NOT support checkmode, due to a limitation in apt-repo tool.

Examples

- name: Remove all repositories
  community.general.apt_repo:
    repo: all
    state: absent

- name: Add repository `Sisysphus` and remove other repositories
  community.general.apt_repo:
    repo: Sisysphus
    state: present
    remove_others: yes

- name: Add local repository `/space/ALT/Sisyphus` and update package cache
  community.general.apt_repo:
    repo: copy:///space/ALT/Sisyphus
    state: present
    update: yes

Authors

• Mikhail Gordeev (@obirvalger)