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portinstall - Installing packages from FreeBSD’s ports system

New in version 1.3.

Synopsis

  • Manage packages for FreeBSD using ‘portinstall’.

Parameters

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

Examples

# Install package foo
- portinstall:
    name: foo
    state: present

# Install package security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
- portinstall:
    name: security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
    state: present

# Remove packages foo and bar
- portinstall:
    name: foo,bar
    state: absent

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author

  • berenddeboer (@berenddeboer)

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/modules/portinstall_module.html