community.general.zypper_repository module – Add and remove Zypper repositories

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 6.6.2).

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. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

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

Synopsis

  • Add or remove Zypper repositories on SUSE and openSUSE

Requirements

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

  • zypper >= 1.0 # included in openSUSE >= 11.1 or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/Desktop >= 11.0

  • python-xml

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

auto_import_keys

boolean

Automatically import the gpg signing key of the new or changed repository.

Has an effect only if state is present. Has no effect on existing (unchanged) repositories or in combination with absent.

Implies runrefresh.

Only works with .repo files if `name` is given explicitly.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

autorefresh

aliases: refresh

boolean

Enable autorefresh of the repository.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

description

string

A description of the repository

disable_gpg_check

boolean

Whether to disable GPG signature checking of all packages. Has an effect only if state is present.

Needs zypper version >= 1.6.2.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

enabled

boolean

Set repository to enabled (or disabled).

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

name

string

A name for the repository. Not required when adding repofiles.

overwrite_multiple

boolean

Overwrite multiple repository entries, if repositories with both name and URL already exist.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

priority

integer

Set priority of repository. Packages will always be installed from the repository with the smallest priority number.

Needs zypper version >= 1.12.25.

repo

string

URI of the repository or .repo file. Required when state=present.

runrefresh

boolean

Refresh the package list of the given repository.

Can be used with repo=* to refresh all repositories.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

state

string

A source string state.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Add NVIDIA repository for graphics drivers
  community.general.zypper_repository:
    name: nvidia-repo
    repo: 'ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.2'
    state: present

- name: Remove NVIDIA repository
  community.general.zypper_repository:
    name: nvidia-repo
    repo: 'ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.2'
    state: absent

- name: Add python development repository
  community.general.zypper_repository:
    repo: 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/python/SLE_11_SP3/devel:languages:python.repo'

- name: Refresh all repos
  community.general.zypper_repository:
    repo: '*'
    runrefresh: true

- name: Add a repo and add its gpg key
  community.general.zypper_repository:
    repo: 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/systemsmanagement/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/'
    auto_import_keys: true

- name: Force refresh of a repository
  community.general.zypper_repository:
    repo: 'http://my_internal_ci_repo/repo'
    name: my_ci_repo
    state: present
    runrefresh: true

Authors

  • Matthias Vogelgesang (@matze)