portage - Package manager for Gentoo

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

Synopsis

• Manages Gentoo packages

Requirements

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

• gentoolkit

Parameters

Examples

# Make sure package foo is installed
- portage:
    package: foo
    state: present

# Make sure package foo is not installed
- portage:
    package: foo
    state: absent

# Update package foo to the "latest" version ( os specific alternative to latest )
- portage:
    package: foo
    update: yes

# Install package foo using PORTAGE_BINHOST setup
- portage:
    package: foo
    getbinpkg: yes

# Re-install world from binary packages only and do not allow any compiling
- portage:
    package: '@world'
    usepkgonly: yes

# Sync repositories and update world
- portage:
    package: '@world'
    update: yes
    deep: yes
    sync: yes

# Remove unneeded packages
- portage:
    depclean: yes

# Remove package foo if it is not explicitly needed
- portage:
    package: foo
    state: absent
    depclean: yes

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance

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

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

Author

• William L Thomson Jr (@wltjr)
• Yap Sok Ann (@sayap)
• Andrew Udvare