opkg - Package manager for OpenWrt

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Status
• Maintenance
  • Author

Synopsis

• Manages OpenWrt packages

Requirements

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

• opkg
• python

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
force (added in 2.0)	Choices: depends maintainer reinstall overwrite downgrade space postinstall remove checksum removal-of-dependent-packages Default: "absent"	opkg --force parameter used
name required		name of package to install/remove
state	Choices: present ← absent	state of the package
update_cache bool	Choices: no ← yes	update the package db first

Examples

- opkg:
    name: foo
    state: present

- opkg:
    name: foo
    state: present
    update_cache: yes

- opkg:
    name: foo
    state: absent

- opkg:
    name: foo,bar
    state: absent

- opkg:
    name: foo
    state: present
    force: overwrite

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

• Patrick Pelletier (@skinp)