Re: [ansible-project] How to use wilde card to remove packages (dnf)

2018-03-03 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
Nice trick, didn't know about this filter. much appreciated :) thanks. -- Rabin On 3 March 2018 at 23:55, Kai Stian Olstad wrote: > On Saturday, 3 March 2018 21.50.36 CET @rabin wrote: > > I was assuming it was possible, because of the example which allow to > > update all packages. > > You pr

Re: [ansible-project] How to use wilde card to remove packages (dnf)

2018-03-03 Thread Kai Stian Olstad
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 21.50.36 CET @rabin wrote: > I was assuming it was possible, because of the example which allow to > update all packages. You probably have a workaround, but just in case you don't this should work to remove all packages staring with libreoffice - dnf: list: in

Re: [ansible-project] How to use wilde card to remove packages (dnf)

2018-03-03 Thread @rabin
I was assuming it was possible, because of the example which allow to update all packages. - name: upgrade all packages dnf: name: "*" state: latest but it seems it is handled specifically in the code, and not passed directly to the dnf command. if names == ['*'] and state == 'latest

Re: [ansible-project] How to use wilde card to remove packages (dnf)

2018-03-02 Thread Kai Stian Olstad
On Friday, 2 March 2018 12.36.25 CET @rabin wrote: > I all ready tried that, same result bascily. When I check the documentation for the dnf module it has nothing about wildcard so it doesn't support that. -- Kai Stian Olstad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

Re: [ansible-project] How to use wilde card to remove packages (dnf)

2018-03-02 Thread @rabin
I all ready tried that, same result bascily. ok: [localhost] => (item=[u'b43-openfwwf', u'b43-fwcutter', u'hexchat', u 'libreoffice*', u'claws-mail']) => { "changed": false, "invocation": { "module_args": { "autoremove": true, "conf_file": null,

Re: [ansible-project] How to use wilde card to remove packages (dnf)

2018-03-02 Thread Kai Stian Olstad
On 02.03.2018 11:24, @rabin wrote: I like to use Ansible to remove few packages, but it seem not to support the wildecard option for package name matching. - name: Remove Packages package: name: "{{ item }}" state: absent tags: - packages_remove with_items: - b43-* - hexchat

[ansible-project] How to use wilde card to remove packages (dnf)

2018-03-02 Thread @rabin
Hello all, I like to use Ansible to remove few packages, but it seem not to support the wildecard option for package name matching. - name: Remove Packages package: name: "{{ item }}" state: absent tags: - packages_remove with_items: - b43-* - hexchat - libreoffice* In th