Hi Peter, you'll need to add your module name to the `squash_actions`
ansible.cfg setting. The default value of that is "apk, apt, dnf, homebrew,
pacman, pkgng, yum, zypper", so just append your module to the list.
James Cammarata
Ansible Lead/Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Ansible by Red Hat
twitter: @thejimic, github: jimi-c
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Peter Burns <pcburn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I posted this to the Ansible Project list but got no responses, perhaps
> this is the better forum for it to be answered though, so I'm cross posting
> it here to.
>
> I'm trying to create an ansible module to install packages using a custom
> package management system. I want it to function like the core yum module
> says it does when used in a loop, i.e. "Instead of calling the module with
> a single package each time through the loop, ansible calls the module once
> with all of the package names from the loop"
>
> How would I replicate this in my own module?
>
> I couldn't see anything special in the source for the yum module that
> would enable this behaviour.
>
> I tried just specifying the input as type list, simplified below:
>
> module = AnsibleModule(
> argument_spec = dict(
> name=dict(type="list", required=True),
> ),
> )
> cmd = [ 'pkg_agent', '-X', ','.join(module.params'name']) ]
> rc, out, err = module.run_command(cmd)
>
> But when I used my module in a playbook, it didn't work as desired:
> tasks:
> - name: "Install packages"
> pkg_install:
> name: "{{ item }}"
> become: True
> with_items:
> - 'common-tests'
> - 'ops-libs'
>
> Both the debug output and the resulting behaviour was it running the
> install on each package individually, and not bundling them together.
>
> The expected result was that it would run `pkg_agent -X
> common-tests,ops-libs` but what in fact happened is it ran `pkg_agent -X
> common-tests` and then `pkg_agent -X ops-libs`
>
> This was using Ansible 2.2 on Ubuntu
>
> Any help in where I've gone wrong with this would be much appreciated.
>
> - Peter
>
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