This is a bad idea because it won't group multiple package installs into
one transaction, so you'll spend more time in updates, and also you don't
have the various apt controls that you need.
However, if you want to:
action: "{{ ansible_pkg_mgr }} name=blah state=latest"
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Mzp45 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to install a package but the package manager varies across the
> distro. I'd like to implement something like this for e.g
>
> - name: install the latest version of vmware-tools
> {{ ansible_pkg_mgr }}: name=vmware-tools-esx-nox state=latest
> tags:
> - vmware-tools
>
> Is this possible within the main tasks file?
>
> Thanks
>
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