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portinstall - Installing packages from FreeBSD’s ports system

New in version 1.3.

Synopsis

Manage packages for FreeBSD using ‘portinstall’.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
name
 yes
name of package to install/remove
state
 no present
  • present
  • absent
state of the package
use_packages
 no True
  • yes
  • no
use packages instead of ports whenever available

Examples

# Install package foo
- portinstall: name=foo state=present

# Install package security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
- portinstall: name=security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd state=present

# Remove packages foo and bar
- portinstall: name=foo,bar state=absent

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© 2012–2016 Michael DeHaan
© 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/portinstall_module.html