ansible/packaging/os/package.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

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DOCUMENTATION = '''
---
module: package
version_added: 2.0
author: Ansible Core Team
short_description: Generic OS package manager
description:
     - Installs, upgrade and removes packages using the underlying OS package manager.
options:
  name:
    description:
      - "Package name, or package specifier with version, like C(name-1.0). When using state=latest, this can be '*' which means run: yum -y update. You can also pass a url or a local path to a rpm file.  To operate on several packages this can accept a comma separated list of packages or (as of 2.0) a list of packages."
    required: true
  state:
    description:
      - Whether to install (C(present), C(latest)), or remove (C(absent)) a package.
    required: true
requirements:
    - Whatever is required for the package plugins specific for each system.
notes:
    - This module actually calls the pertinent package modules for each system (apt, yum, etc).
'''
EXAMPLES = '''
- name: install the latest version of ntpdate
  package: name=ntpdate state=latest

# This uses a variable as this changes per distribution.
- name: remove the apache package
  package : name={{apache}} state=absent
'''