ansible.builtin.package_facts – package information as facts

Note

This module is part of ansible-base and included in all Ansible installations. In most cases, you can use the short module name package_facts even without specifying the collections: keyword. Despite that, we recommend you use the FQCN for easy linking to the module documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have the same module name.

New in version 2.5: of ansible.builtin

Synopsis

  • Return information about installed packages as facts

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • For ‘portage’ support it requires the qlist utility, which is part of ‘app-portage/portage-utils’.
  • For Debian-based systems python-apt package must be installed on targeted hosts.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
manager
list / elements=string
    Choices:
  • auto ←
  • rpm
  • apt
  • portage
  • pkg
  • pacman
Default:
["auto"]
The package manager used by the system so we can query the package information.
Since 2.8 this is a list and can support multiple package managers per system.
The 'portage' and 'pkg' options were added in version 2.8.
strategy
string
added in 2.8 of ansible.builtin
    Choices:
  • first ←
  • all
This option controls how the module queries the package managers on the system. first means it will return only information for the first supported package manager available. all will return information for all supported and available package managers on the system.

Examples

- name: Gather the package facts
  package_facts:
    manager: auto

- name: Print the package facts
  debug:
    var: ansible_facts.packages

- name: Check whether a package called foobar is installed
  debug:
    msg: "{{ ansible_facts.packages['foobar'] | length }} versions of foobar are installed!"
  when: "'foobar' in ansible_facts.packages"

Returned Facts

Facts returned by this module are added/updated in the hostvars host facts and can be referenced by name just like any other host fact. They do not need to be registered in order to use them.

Fact Returned Description
packages
dictionary / elements=string
when operating system level package manager is specified or auto detected manager
Maps the package name to a non-empty list of dicts with package information.
Every dict in the list corresponds to one installed version of the package.
The fields described below are present for all package managers. Depending on the package manager, there might be more fields for a package.

Sample:
{ "packages": { "kernel": [ { "name": "kernel", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0", ... }, { "name": "kernel", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0", ... }, ... ], "kernel-tools": [ { "name": "kernel-tools", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0", ... } ], ... } } # Sample rpm { "packages": { "kernel": [ { "arch": "x86_64", "epoch": null, "name": "kernel", "release": "514.26.2.el7", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0" }, { "arch": "x86_64", "epoch": null, "name": "kernel", "release": "514.16.1.el7", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0" }, { "arch": "x86_64", "epoch": null, "name": "kernel", "release": "514.10.2.el7", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0" }, { "arch": "x86_64", "epoch": null, "name": "kernel", "release": "514.21.1.el7", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0" }, { "arch": "x86_64", "epoch": null, "name": "kernel", "release": "693.2.2.el7", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0" } ], "kernel-tools": [ { "arch": "x86_64", "epoch": null, "name": "kernel-tools", "release": "693.2.2.el7", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0" } ], "kernel-tools-libs": [ { "arch": "x86_64", "epoch": null, "name": "kernel-tools-libs", "release": "693.2.2.el7", "source": "rpm", "version": "3.10.0" } ], } } # Sample deb { "packages": { "libbz2-1.0": [ { "version": "1.0.6-5", "source": "apt", "arch": "amd64", "name": "libbz2-1.0" } ], "patch": [ { "version": "2.7.1-4ubuntu1", "source": "apt", "arch": "amd64", "name": "patch" } ], } }
name
string / elements=string
always
The package's name.

source
string / elements=string
always
Where information on the package came from.

version
string / elements=string
always
The package's version.



Authors

  • Matthew Jones (@matburt)
  • Brian Coca (@bcoca)
  • Adam Miller (@maxamillion)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2019 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.10/collections/ansible/builtin/package_facts_module.html