How to get latest versions of roles using galaxy?

[Zhomart Mukhamejanov]

Currently I'm using a role with it's dependencies. Author of the role fixed some major bugs but didn't pushed the release to the galaxy.ansible.com.

I want to get latest version of the role and it's dependencies from github. How can I do it?

[Zhomart Mukhamejanov]

Ok, I've created simple script for that.

.roles-list.yml

```

- name: lesmyrmidons.mongodb

  github: lesmyrmidons/ansible-role-mongodb

- name: Graylog2.graylog-ansible-role

  github: Graylog2/graylog-ansible-role

```

./update-roles

```

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'yaml'

require 'tmpdir'

root = Pathname.new(File.expand_path(__dir__))

roles_list = YAML.load(File.read('.roles-list.yml'))

def command(cmd)

  p cmd

  system cmd

end

roles_list.each do |role|

  puts "\nProcessing #{role['name']}"

  url = %(https://github.com/#{role['github']}/archive/master.tar.gz)

  dir = Dir.mktmpdir('ansible')

  command "cd #{dir}; curl -L #{url} | tar -xf -"

  dest = root.join("roles", role['name'])

  FileUtils.rm_rf(dest)

  FileUtils.mkdir_p(dest)

  src = dir

  if Dir.new(dir).count == 3

    name = Dir.new(dir).to_a.detect { |f| f[0] != '.' }

    src = File.join(dir, name)

  end

  Dir.new(src).each do |f|

    next if f == '.' || f == '..'

    FileUtils.mv(File.join(src, f), dest)

  end

  FileUtils.rm_rf(dir)

end

puts "Done!"

```

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 08. nov. 2016 20:38, Zhomart Mukhamejanov wrote:
> Ok, I've created simple script for that.
>
> .roles-list.yml
>
> ```
> - name: lesmyrmidons.mongodb
> github: lesmyrmidons/ansible-role-mongodb
> - name: Graylog2.graylog-ansible-role
> github: Graylog2/graylog-ansible-role

ansible-galaxy can do that for you.

Something like this(not tested)

.roles-list.yml
- src: https://github.com/lesmyrmidons/ansible-role-mongodb
name: lesmyrmidons.mongodb
- src: https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog-ansible-role
name: Graylog2.graylog-ansible-role

ansible-galaxy install -r .roles-list.yml

Check this link for more information
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/galaxy.html#installing-roles

--
Kai Stian Olstad