community.general.portinstall module – Installing packages from FreeBSD’s ports system
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).
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.portinstall
.
Synopsis
Manage packages for FreeBSD using ‘portinstall’.
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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name of package to install/remove |
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state of the package Choices:
|
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use packages instead of ports whenever available Choices:
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Examples
- name: Install package foo
community.general.portinstall:
name: foo
state: present
- name: Install package security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
community.general.portinstall:
name: security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
state: present
- name: Remove packages foo and bar
community.general.portinstall:
name: foo,bar
state: absent
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