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agordgongrant
agordgongrant

Reputation: 41

Install multiple local rpms using Ansible

I have to install dozen of rpms located in a specific directory using ansible. Right now I'm using the syntax like:

- name: install uploaded rpms
  command: rpm -ivh /tmp/*.rpm

I want to do it using yum module, but don't know, how to tell it to install all rpms in a directory (not to specify name of each file).

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 3

Views: 31407

Answers (4)

Pavan Srinivas
Pavan Srinivas

Reputation: 106

I think the best solution for this is as follows:

 - name: Find all rpm files in /tmp folder
   find:
     paths: "/tmp"
     patterns: "*.rpm"
   register: rpm_files
 
 - name: Setting rpm_list
   set_fact:
    rpm_list: "{{ rpm_files.files | map(attribute='path') | list}}"

 - name: installing the rpm files
   yum:
     name: "{{rpm_list}}"
     state: present

Looping through the files might cause Yum Lock issues. So this is better and efficient as we don't have to loop through all the files, instead we are passing a list of file paths to the yum module.

Upvotes: 8

Chang Joe
Chang Joe

Reputation: 43

As https://stackoverflow.com/a/45708676/11887927 commented and I tested. In most cases, it succeeded but adding retries to the task will help ensure the dependencies problems since we're using find module and it returns the results one by one. Here is the example of the revised:

- name: Finding RPM files
  find:
    paths: "/tmp"
    patterns: "*.rpm"
  register: rpm_result

- name: Install RPM
  yum:
    name: "{{ item.path }}"
    state: present
  with_items: "{{ rpm_result.files }}"
  retries: 5
  register: result
  until: result.rc == 0

The issue happened when there are 6 RPMs.

References:

  1. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_loops.html#retrying-a-task-until-a-condition-is-met
  2. https://stackoverflow.com/a/44135131/11887927

Upvotes: 0

liuhao
liuhao

Reputation: 679

try this:

- name: Installed the rpm files
  shell: yum localinstall *.rpm -y
  args:
    chdir: /tmp/rpm_dir

ignore the warning.

Upvotes: 1

Arbab Nazar
Arbab Nazar

Reputation: 23771

Can you try this(I didn't test it):

- name: Finding RPM files
  find:
    paths: "/tmp"
    patterns: "*.rpm"
  register: rpm_result

- name: Install RPM
  yum:
    name: "{{ item.path }}"
    state: present
  with_items: "{{ rpm_result.files }}"

Upvotes: 6

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