Sounds ideal, yes. I'd wondered about returning a list of tuples with
status for each package, but your suggestion is more readable, reducing to
empty lists when nothing changed.
I don't think it's possible (yet) to have a mixture of
latest/absent/present states in a single call - with_items turns them into
separate tasks. But that would be a nice feature in future too, so
returning all three lists makes sense.
Thanks,
Mark <><
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 4:23:41 PM UTC+1, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> I'm ok with the modules getting modifications to return this.
>
> Something like an array of
>
> {
> installed: [],
> upgraded: [],
> removed: []
> }
>
> etc ?
>
> The yum module has a bit better output and we'd want to make strides to
> keep them the same while not breaking any existing playbooks that used
> registered values.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:56 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I've been testing the apt module and with_items to manage reasonably
>> large (200+) sets of packages. It's comfortably fast - the packages are
>> iterated within the apt module as a single task - but I miss being able to
>> see which individual packages were updated in a given playbook run.
>>
>> Is there a way to report on this without having a separate task for each
>> package?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark <><
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