Thanks - that works for me.
On Friday, July 11, 2014 5:37:12 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> 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] <javascript:>>
> 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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