community.general.pkgin – Package manager for SmartOS, NetBSD, et al.¶
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.pkgin
.
Synopsis¶
The standard package manager for SmartOS, but also usable on NetBSD or any OS that uses
pkgsrc
. (Home: http://pkgin.net/)
Parameters¶
Notes¶
Note
Known bug with pkgin < 0.8.0: if a package is removed and another package depends on it, the other package will be silently removed as well. New to Ansible 1.9: check-mode support.
Examples¶
- name: Install package foo
community.general.pkgin:
name: foo
state: present
- name: Install specific version of foo package
community.general.pkgin:
name: foo-2.0.1
state: present
- name: Update cache and install foo package
community.general.pkgin:
name: foo
update_cache: yes
- name: Remove package foo
community.general.pkgin:
name: foo
state: absent
- name: Remove packages foo and bar
community.general.pkgin:
name: foo,bar
state: absent
- name: Update repositories as a separate step
community.general.pkgin:
update_cache: yes
- name: Upgrade main packages (equivalent to pkgin upgrade)
community.general.pkgin:
upgrade: yes
- name: Upgrade all packages (equivalent to pkgin full-upgrade)
community.general.pkgin:
full_upgrade: yes
- name: Force-upgrade all packages (equivalent to pkgin -F full-upgrade)
community.general.pkgin:
full_upgrade: yes
force: yes
- name: Clean packages cache (equivalent to pkgin clean)
community.general.pkgin:
clean: yes
Authors¶
Larry Gilbert (@L2G)
Shaun Zinck (@szinck)
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse (@jasperla)