Can someone send me some links about why it's so convoluted to get Ansible manage of software packages on Windows?
Even with all the flavors of package managers on the Linux side of things Ansible does a great job. Moving into the Ansible manage of Windows world things just seem so convoluted. I don't do much Admin in Windows so I might just be clueless. But I've spent hours trying to figure out how to uninstall package (Quicktime in this instance). Is that just the nature of Windows? Windows software packing? Lack of my knowledge? Some answers I would like to get. win_msi vs win_package Is this like .deb vs .rpm? If I have a .msi I know that's win_msi, but what if I got a .exe? Is that a win_package install? What if that .exe is self-extracting zip, do I use win_msi? win_package? Write tasks to run it (to unzip) and then see if I need to use win_msi or win_package? I do not even know what to search for. I'm struggling with the questions to ask. And Google results for "Windows Sucks" aren't helpful. Any info I can read about this would be helpful. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/52320041-b1af-427f-a19c-2fe2968d7625%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
