CODEWITHSUNDEEP
redhatansibleansible-2.x
Muhammad Lukman Low
Muhammad Lukman Low

Reputation: 8533

If I have a local rpm in my ansible-playbook can I do yum install in one step?

I have downloaded a rpm in my ansible-playbook: 

(djangoenv)~/P/c/apache-installer ❯❯❯ tree .
.
├── defaults
│   └── main.yml
├── files
│   ├── apache2latest.tar
│   ├── httpd_final.conf
│   ├── httpd_temp.conf
│   └── sshpass-1.05-9.1.i686.rpm
├── handlers
│   └── main.yml
├── hosts
├── meta
│   └── main.yml
├── README.md
├── tasks
│   └── main.yml
├── templates
├── tests
│   ├── inventory
│   └── test.yml
└── vars
    └── main.yml

My question is why can't I just install it using: 

 - yum: name=files/sshpass-1.05-9.1.i686.rpm

? It complains that files/sshpass-1.05-9.1.i686.rpm is not found in the system. Now I am doing it in two steps:

 - copy: src=files/sshpass-1.05-9.1.i686.rpm dest=/tmp/sshpass-1.05-9.1.i686.rpm force=no
 - yum: name=/tmp/sshpass-1.05-9.1.i686.rpm state=present

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4996

Answers (1)

Henrik Pingel
Henrik Pingel

Reputation: 3193

No, there is no simple way around coping the package to the remote host before installing. Ansible yum module expects a local file when you define a file in the name parameter.

IMHO it is not a good idea to keep packages inside the Ansible code base. Because they are binary and not exactly part of the actual Ansible code. It would be cleaner to setup a private repository and store those files there. That is the only way around coping a package in this situation I'm aware of.

Upvotes: 2

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