community.general.portage module – Package manager for Gentoo

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).

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.portage.

Synopsis

  • Manages Gentoo packages

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

backtrack

integer

added in community.general 5.8.0

Set backtrack value (--backtrack).

changed_use

boolean

Include installed packages where USE flags have changed, except when

flags that the user has not enabled are added or removed

(–changed-use)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

deep

boolean

Consider the entire dependency tree of packages (–deep)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

depclean

boolean

Remove packages not needed by explicitly merged packages (–depclean)

If no package is specified, clean up the world’s dependencies

Otherwise, –depclean serves as a dependency aware version of –unmerge

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

getbinpkg

boolean

Prefer packages specified at PORTAGE_BINHOST in make.conf.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

getbinpkgonly

boolean

added in community.general 1.3.0

Merge only packages specified at PORTAGE_BINHOST in make.conf.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

jobs

integer

Specifies the number of packages to build simultaneously.

Since version 2.6: Value of 0 or False resets any previously added

–jobs setting values

keepgoing

boolean

Continue as much as possible after an error.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

loadavg

float

Specifies that no new builds should be started if there are

other builds running and the load average is at least LOAD

Since version 2.6: Value of 0 or False resets any previously added

–load-average setting values

newuse

boolean

Include installed packages where USE flags have changed (–newuse)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

nodeps

boolean

Only merge packages but not their dependencies (–nodeps)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

noreplace

boolean

Do not re-emerge installed packages (–noreplace)

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

oneshot

boolean

Do not add the packages to the world file (–oneshot)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

onlydeps

boolean

Only merge packages’ dependencies but not the packages (–onlydeps)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

package

aliases: name

list / elements=string

Package atom or set, for example sys-apps/foo or >foo-2.13 or @world

quiet

boolean

Run emerge in quiet mode (–quiet)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

quietbuild

boolean

Redirect all build output to logs alone, and do not display it

on stdout (–quiet-build)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

quietfail

boolean

Suppresses display of the build log on stdout (–quiet-fail)

Only the die message and the path of the build log will be

displayed on stdout.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

select

boolean

added in community.general 8.6.0

If set to true, explicitely add the package to the world file.

Please note that this option is not used for idempotency, it is only used when actually installing a package.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

state

string

State of the package atom

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "installed"

  • "emerged"

  • "absent"

  • "removed"

  • "unmerged"

  • "latest"

sync

string

Sync package repositories first

If yes, perform “emerge –sync”

If web, perform “emerge-webrsync”

Choices:

  • "web"

  • "yes"

  • "no"

update

boolean

Update packages to the best version available (–update)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

usepkg

boolean

Tries to use the binary package(s) in the locally available packages directory.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

usepkgonly

boolean

Merge only binaries (no compiling).

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

verbose

boolean

Run emerge in verbose mode (–verbose)

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

withbdeps

boolean

added in community.general 5.8.0

Specifies that build time dependencies should be installed.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

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: Make sure package foo is installed
  community.general.portage:
    package: foo
    state: present

- name: Make sure package foo is not installed
  community.general.portage:
    package: foo
    state: absent

- name: Update package foo to the latest version (os specific alternative to latest)
  community.general.portage:
    package: foo
    update: true

- name: Install package foo using PORTAGE_BINHOST setup
  community.general.portage:
    package: foo
    getbinpkg: true

- name: Re-install world from binary packages only and do not allow any compiling
  community.general.portage:
    package: '@world'
    usepkgonly: true

- name: Sync repositories and update world
  community.general.portage:
    package: '@world'
    update: true
    deep: true
    sync: true

- name: Remove unneeded packages
  community.general.portage:
    depclean: true

- name: Remove package foo if it is not explicitly needed
  community.general.portage:
    package: foo
    state: absent
    depclean: true

Authors

  • William L Thomson Jr (@wltjr)

  • Yap Sok Ann (@sayap)

  • Andrew Udvare (@Tatsh)