community.general.openbsd_pkg module – Manage packages on OpenBSD

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).

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.openbsd_pkg.

Synopsis

  • Manage packages on OpenBSD using the pkg tools.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 2.5

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

build

boolean

Build the package from source instead of downloading and installing a binary. Requires that the port source tree is already installed. Automatically builds and installs the ‘sqlports’ package, if it is not already installed.

Mutually exclusive with snapshot.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

clean

boolean

When updating or removing packages, delete the extra configuration file(s) in the old packages which are annotated with @extra in the packaging-list.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

name

list / elements=string / required

A name or a list of names of the packages.

ports_dir

path

When used in combination with the build option, allows overriding the default ports source directory.

Default: “/usr/ports”

quick

boolean

Replace or delete packages quickly; do not bother with checksums before removing normal files.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

snapshot

boolean

added in 1.3.0 of community.general

Force %c and %m to expand to snapshots, even on a release kernel.

Mutually exclusive with build.

Choices:

  • no ← (default)

  • yes

state

string

present will make sure the package is installed. latest will make sure the latest version of the package is installed. absent will make sure the specified package is not installed.

Choices:

  • absent

  • latest

  • present ← (default)

  • installed

  • removed

Notes

Note

  • When used with a loop: each package will be processed individually, it is much more efficient to pass the list directly to the name option.

Examples

- name: Make sure nmap is installed
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: nmap
    state: present

- name: Make sure nmap is the latest version
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: nmap
    state: latest

- name: Make sure nmap is not installed
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: nmap
    state: absent

- name: Make sure nmap is installed, build it from source if it is not
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: nmap
    state: present
    build: yes

- name: Specify a pkg flavour with '--'
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: vim--no_x11
    state: present

- name: Specify the default flavour to avoid ambiguity errors
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: vim--
    state: present

- name: Specify a package branch (requires at least OpenBSD 6.0)
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: python%3.5
    state: present

- name: Update all packages on the system
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: '*'
    state: latest

- name: Purge a package and it's configuration files
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: mpd
    clean: yes
    state: absent

- name: Quickly remove a package without checking checksums
  community.general.openbsd_pkg:
    name: qt5
    quick: yes
    state: absent

Authors

  • Patrik Lundin (@eest)