yum exclude & loop with ansible 2.5

[Shlomit Afgin]

Hi,

I start to work with Ansible lately. 

I would like to run 'yum install' on a list of packages. I have:

- name: install these items

  yum:

    name: "{{item}}"

    exclude: package4*

    update_cache: yes

    state: present

    skip_broken: yes

  with_lines: cat "path_to_file/yum_packages.txt"

  

File yum_packages.txt contain:

package1

package2

package3

package4

1. The exclude ignored, it trying to install package4 even that it in the exclude line.

    I tried also to read the package in different way:

      with_items:

      - package1

      - package2

      - package3

      - package4

    Still dont work.

2. It give me a message that 'with_lines' & 'with_items' deprecation and should use the 'loop' instead. when I change it to 'loop' if said that :

Invalid data passed to 'loop' it requires a list, got this instead: cat \"/path/to/file/yum_packages.txt\" 

    'loop' work okay with a fix list like:

    loop:

  - package1

  - package2

     ...

   How can I read with 'loop' data from a file?

Thanks.