#!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # (c) 2015, Ansible, inc # # This file is part of Ansible # # Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with Ansible. If not, see . # DOCUMENTATION = ''' --- module: package version_added: 2.0 author: - Ansible Inc maintainers: - 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)." - "Be aware that packages are not always named the same and this module will not 'translate' them per distro." required: true state: description: - Whether to install (C(present), C(latest)), or remove (C(absent)) a package. required: true use: description: - The required package manager module to use (yum, apt, etc). The default 'auto' will use existing facts or try to autodetect it. - You should only use this field if the automatic selection is not working for some reason. required: false default: auto 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 '''