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

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.0.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.portinstall.

Synopsis
Parameters
Examples

Synopsis

Manage packages for FreeBSD using ‘portinstall’.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name string / required		name of package to install/remove aliases: pkg
state string	present ← absent	state of the package
use_packages boolean	no yes ←	use packages instead of ports whenever available

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)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.11/collections/community/general/portinstall_module.html