ansible.builtin.debconf – Configure a .deb package
Note
This module is part of ansible-core
and included in all Ansible
installations. In most cases, you can use the short
module name
debconf
even without specifying the collections:
keyword.
However, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the
module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have
the same module name.
New in version 1.6: of ansible.builtin
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
debconf
debconf-utils
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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Name of package to configure. |
|
A debconf configuration setting. |
|
Do not set ‘seen’ flag when pre-seeding. Choices:
|
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Value to set the configuration to. |
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The type of the value supplied. It is highly recommended to add no_log=True to task while specifying vtype=password.
Choices:
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Notes
Note
This module requires the command line debconf tools.
A number of questions have to be answered (depending on the package). Use ‘debconf-show <package>’ on any Debian or derivative with the package installed to see questions/settings available.
Some distros will always record tasks involving the setting of passwords as changed. This is due to debconf-get-selections masking passwords.
It is highly recommended to add no_log=True to task while handling sensitive information using this module.
Supports
check_mode
.
Examples
- name: Set default locale to fr_FR.UTF-8
ansible.builtin.debconf:
name: locales
question: locales/default_environment_locale
value: fr_FR.UTF-8
vtype: select
- name: Set to generate locales
ansible.builtin.debconf:
name: locales
question: locales/locales_to_be_generated
value: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
vtype: multiselect
- name: Accept oracle license
ansible.builtin.debconf:
name: oracle-java7-installer
question: shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1
value: 'true'
vtype: select
- name: Specifying package you can register/return the list of questions and current values
ansible.builtin.debconf:
name: tzdata
- name: Pre-configure tripwire site passphrase
ansible.builtin.debconf:
name: tripwire
question: tripwire/site-passphrase
value: "{{ site_passphrase }}"
vtype: password
no_log: True
Authors
Brian Coca (@bcoca)