Actually, it didn't quite work :( The task was able to run through but I
just realized it was not importing the file in correct as a list for the
whitelist.
On Monday, August 26, 2019 at 8:47:40 AM UTC-4, Tuyen Nguyen wrote:
>
>
> HI
>
> Thank you for directing me in the right direction!
>
> I did the following and it worked
>
>
> win_updates:
> category_name:
> - SecurityUpdates
> - CriticalUpdates
> - UpdatesRollups
> state: installed
> whitelist:
> - "{{lookup('file','patchlist.txt')}}"
> reboot: yes
>
>
>
> On Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 3:37:34 PM UTC-4, Zolvaring wrote:
>>
>> I'm not able to test this at the moment, but I think the file lookup is
>> what you want:
>>
>> Mylist: "{{ lookup('file', '/path/to/my/yaml/list') }}"
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 12:34 PM Tuyen Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am using the win_updates module and I want to include a list of
>>> approved patches in the whitelist option. I have the list of all my
>>> approved patches in a file already, and I would like to know if and how I
>>> can import this file to use?
>>>
>>> As in example, can I import the list somehow to be a variable called
>>> patchlist ?
>>>
>>> And then in the win_updates module, I could do
>>>
>>> win_updates:
>>> category_name:
>>> - SecurityUpdates
>>> - CriticalUpdates
>>> - UpdatesRollups
>>> state: installed
>>> whitelist: {{ patchlist }
>>> reboot: yes
>>>
>>>
>>>
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