community.general.pkgutil module – OpenCSW package management on Solaris
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.4).
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.pkgutil
.
Synopsis
This module installs, updates and removes packages from the OpenCSW project for Solaris.
Unlike the community.general.svr4pkg module, it will resolve and download dependencies.
See https://www.opencsw.org/ for more information about the project.
Aliases: packaging.os.pkgutil
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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To allow the update process to downgrade packages to match what is present in the repository, set this to This is useful for rolling back to stable from testing, or similar operations. Choices:
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The name of the package. When using |
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The repository path to install the package from. Its global definition is in |
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Whether to install ( The upgrade ( Choices:
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If you always want to refresh your catalog from the mirror, even when it’s not stale, set this to Choices:
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Attributes
Attribute |
Support |
Description |
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Support: full In order to check the availability of packages, the catalog cache under |
Can run in |
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Support: none |
Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in |
Examples
- name: Install a package
community.general.pkgutil:
name: CSWcommon
state: present
- name: Install a package from a specific repository
community.general.pkgutil:
name: CSWnrpe
site: ftp://myinternal.repo/opencsw/kiel
state: latest
- name: Remove a package
community.general.pkgutil:
name: CSWtop
state: absent
- name: Install several packages
community.general.pkgutil:
name:
- CSWsudo
- CSWtop
state: present
- name: Update all packages
community.general.pkgutil:
name: '*'
state: latest
- name: Update all packages and force versions to match latest in catalog
community.general.pkgutil:
name: '*'
state: latest
force: true