How to use wilde card to remove packages (dnf)

[@rabin]

Hello all,

I like to use Ansible to remove few packages, but it seem not to support the wildecard option for package name matching.

- name: Remove Packages

 package:

   name: "{{ item }}"

   state: absent

 tags:

   - packages_remove

 with_items:

   - b43-*

   - hexchat

   - libreoffice*

In the above example I was expecting the for "b43-*" to match b43-openfwwf and b43-fwcutter but non of them was removed.
same for libreoffice, here is the output with -vvv

ok: [localhost] => (item=libreoffice*) => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "autoremove": null,
            "conf_file": null,
            "disable_gpg_check": false,
            "disablerepo": [],
            "enablerepo": [],
            "installroot": "/",
            "list": null,
            "name": [
                "libreoffice*"
            ],
            "state": "absent"
        }
    },
    "item": "libreoffice*",
    "msg": "Nothing to do"
}

Any hints ?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 02.03.2018 11:24, @rabin wrote:
> I like to use Ansible to remove few packages, but it seem not to
> support
> the wildecard option for package name matching.
>
> - name: Remove Packages
> package:
> name: "{{ item }}"
> state: absent
> tags:
> - packages_remove
> with_items:
> - b43-*
> - hexchat
> - libreoffice*
>
>
> In the above example I was expecting the for "b43-*" to match
> b43-openfwwf
> and b43-fwcutter but non of them was removed.
> same for libreoffice, here is the output with -vvv

Package is a very generic module with no extra functionality.
For more functionality you need to use the module for your package
system.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[@rabin]

I all ready tried that, same result bascily.

ok: [localhost] => (item=[u'b43-openfwwf', u'b43-fwcutter', u'hexchat', u'libreoffice*', u'claws-mail']) => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "autoremove": true,
            "conf_file": null,
            "disable_gpg_check": false,
            "disablerepo": [],
            "enablerepo": [],
            "installroot": "/",
            "list": null,
            "name": [
                "b43-openfwwf",
                "b43-fwcutter",
                "hexchat",
                "libreoffice*",
                "claws-mail"
            ],
            "state": "absent"
        }
    },
    "item": [
        "b43-openfwwf",
        "b43-fwcutter",
        "hexchat",
        "libreoffice*",
        "claws-mail"
    ],
    "msg": "Nothing to do"
}

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Friday, 2 March 2018 12.36.25 CET @rabin wrote:
> I all ready tried that, same result bascily.

When I check the documentation for the dnf module it has nothing about wildcard so it doesn't support that.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[@rabin]

I was assuming it was possible, because of the example which allow to update all packages.

- name: upgrade all packages
  dnf:
    name: "*"
    state: latest

but it seems it is handled specifically in the code, and not passed directly to the dnf command.

if names == ['*'] and state == 'latest':
    base.upgrade_all()

Thanks.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Saturday, 3 March 2018 21.50.36 CET @rabin wrote:
> I was assuming it was possible, because of the example which allow to
> update all packages.

You probably have a workaround, but just in case you don't this should work to remove all packages staring with libreoffice

- dnf:
list: installed
register: r

- dnf:
name: "{{ r.results | selectattr('name', 'search', '^libreoffice') | map(attribute='name') | list }}"
state: absent


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Kai Stian Olstad

[Rabin Yasharzadehe]

Nice trick, didn't know about this filter.

much appreciated :)

thanks.

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Rabin

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Kai Stian Olstad

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