xbps - Manage packages with XBPS

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Manage packages with the XBPS package manager.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
name
 no
Name of the package to install, upgrade, or remove.
recurse
 no
  • yes
  • no
When removing a package, also remove its dependencies, provided that they are not required by other packages and were not explicitly installed by a user.
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
  • latest
Desired state of the package.
update_cache
 no True
  • yes
  • no
Whether or not to refresh the master package lists. This can be run as part of a package installation or as a separate step.
upgrade
 no
  • yes
  • no
Whether or not to upgrade whole system

Examples

# Install package foo
- xbps: name=foo state=present
# Upgrade package foo
- xbps: name=foo state=latest update_cache=yes
# Remove packages foo and bar
- xbps: name=foo,bar state=absent
# Recursively remove package foo
- xbps: name=foo state=absent recurse=yes
# Update package cache
- xbps: update_cache=yes
# Upgrade packages
- xbps: upgrade=yes

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
msg
Message about results
 success string System Upgraded
packages
Packages that are affected/would be affected
 success list ['ansible']

Status

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

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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/xbps_module.html