debconf - Configure a .deb package

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Notes
• Examples
• Status
• Maintenance
  • Support
  • Author

Synopsis

• Configure a .deb package using debconf-set-selections. Or just query existing selections.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• debconf
• debconf-utils

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
name required		Name of package to configure. aliases: pkg
question		A debconf configuration setting. aliases: selection, setting
unseen bool	Choices: no ← yes	Do not set 'seen' flag when pre-seeding.
value		Value to set the configuration to. aliases: answer
vtype	Choices: boolean error multiselect note password seen select string text title text	The type of the value supplied. seen was added in 2.2.

Notes

Examples

- name: Set default locale to fr_FR.UTF-8
  debconf:
    name: locales
    question: locales/default_environment_locale
    value: fr_FR.UTF-8
    vtype: select

- name: set to generate locales
  debconf:
    name: locales
    question: locales/locales_to_be_generated
    value: en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
    vtype: multiselect

- name: Accept oracle license
  debconf:
    name: oracle-java7-installer
    question: shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1
    value: 'true'
    vtype: select

- name: Specifying package you can register/return the list of questions and current values
  debconf:
    name: tzdata

Status

This module is flagged as stableinterface which means that the maintainers for this module guarantee that no backward incompatible interface changes will be made.

Maintenance

This module is flagged as core which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Core Team. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Core Team, see here.

Support

For more information about Red Hat’s support of this module, please refer to this Knowledge Base article

Author

• Brian Coca (@bcoca)