community.general.yum_versionlock module – Locks / unlocks a installed package(s) from being updated by yum package manager
Note
This module is part of the community.general collection (version 8.6.8).
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.yum_versionlock
.
New in community.general 2.0.0
Synopsis
This module adds installed packages to yum versionlock to prevent the package(s) from being updated.
Aliases: packaging.os.yum_versionlock
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
yum
yum-versionlock
Parameters
Parameter |
Comments |
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Package name or a list of package names with optional version or wildcards. Specifying versions is supported since community.general 7.2.0. |
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If state is If state is Choices:
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Attributes
Attribute |
Support |
Description |
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Support: full |
Can run in |
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Support: none |
Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in |
Notes
Note
Requires yum-plugin-versionlock package on the remote node.
Examples
- name: Prevent Apache / httpd from being updated
community.general.yum_versionlock:
state: present
name:
- httpd
- name: Prevent Apache / httpd version 2.4.57-2 from being updated
community.general.yum_versionlock:
state: present
name:
- httpd-0:2.4.57-2.el9
- name: Prevent multiple packages from being updated
community.general.yum_versionlock:
state: present
name:
- httpd
- nginx
- haproxy
- curl
- name: Remove lock from Apache / httpd to be updated again
community.general.yum_versionlock:
state: absent
name: httpd
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key |
Description |
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A list of package(s) in versionlock list. Returned: success Sample: |
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State of package(s). Returned: success Sample: |