community.general.apt_repo – Manage APT repositories via apt-repo

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. 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.apt_repo.

Synopsis
Parameters
Notes
Examples

Synopsis

Manages APT repositories using apt-repo tool.
See https://www.altlinux.org/Apt-repo for details about apt-repo

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
remove_others boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Remove other then added repositories Used if state=present
repo string / required		Name of the repository to add or remove.
state string	Choices: absent present ←	Indicates the desired repository state.
update boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Update the package database after changing repositories.

Notes

Note

This module works on ALT based distros.
Does NOT support checkmode, due to a limitation in apt-repo tool.

Examples

- name: Remove all repositories
  community.general.apt_repo:
    repo: all
    state: absent

- name: Add repository `Sisysphus` and remove other repositories
  community.general.apt_repo:
    repo: Sisysphus
    state: present
    remove_others: yes

- name: Add local repository `/space/ALT/Sisyphus` and update package cache
  community.general.apt_repo:
    repo: copy:///space/ALT/Sisyphus
    state: present
    update: yes

Authors

Mikhail Gordeev (@obirvalger)

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