apt module with list of packages

[Jason Clark]

Is there a way to have a file i.e system-requirements.txt with a package per line and have the apt module install that?  Exactly how pip works...

[Michael DeHaan]

apt is not pip, but we have some very nice lookup plugins that are useful.

- apt: name={{ item }} state=installed

  with_pipe: cat /path/to/file.txt

Note that the file.txt is assumed to be on the control machine.

Alternatively, you could register the result of running ls and loop through "result.stdout_lines"

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Jason Clark <jason...@360pi.com> wrote:

Is there a way to have a file i.e system-requirements.txt with a package per line and have the apt module install that?  Exactly how pip works...

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[Jason Clark]

Thanks Michael.  Yeah I didn't mean pip == apt but that the apt module in ansible take a file like the pip module does.   

Here is what I ended up with in case anyone else needs to do the same thing.

- name: Ensure all base system packages are installed

  sudo: true

  apt: pkg={{ item }} state=installed

  with_lines: cat ../files/base-packages.txt