community.general.portinstall module – Installing packages from FreeBSD’s ports system

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

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.portinstall.

Synopsis

  • Manage packages for FreeBSD using ‘portinstall’.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

name

aliases: pkg

string / required

name of package to install/remove

state

string

state of the package

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

use_packages

boolean

use packages instead of ports whenever available

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: none

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: Install package foo
  community.general.portinstall:
    name: foo
    state: present

- name: Install package security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
  community.general.portinstall:
    name: security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
    state: present

- name: Remove packages foo and bar
  community.general.portinstall:
    name: foo,bar
    state: absent

Authors

  • berenddeboer (@berenddeboer)