yum module not updating local rpm

[Giovanni Torres]

Running ansible 2.1.1.0 on CentOS 6.

I have a package (v5.5.0) that is installed on the remote host:

[remotehost ~] $ rpm -q mypkg
mypkg-5.5.0-1.el6.x86_64

I tried to use this command on the ansible server to update the package to v5.5.2 on the remotehost:

# ansible remotehost -m yum -a "name=/nfs/RPMS/mypkg-5.5.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm state=present" -vvvv
remotehost | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "conf_file": null,
            "disable_gpg_check": false,
            "disablerepo": null,
            "enablerepo": null,
            "exclude": null,
            "install_repoquery": true,
            "list": null,
            "name": [
                "/nfs/RPMS/mypkg-5.5.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm"
            ],
            "state": "present",
            "update_cache": false,
            "validate_certs": true
        },
        "module_name": "yum"
    },
    "msg": "",
    "rc": 0,
    "results": []
}

But the package doesn't update.  "changed" is false.  It remains at 5.5.0, not 5.5.2 as expected.


If i try to change state to latest, I get the following error:

remotehost | FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "failed": true,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "conf_file": null,
            "disable_gpg_check": false,
            "disablerepo": null,
            "enablerepo": null,
            "exclude": null,
            "install_repoquery": true,
            "list": null,
            "name": [
                "/nfs/RPMS/mypkg-5.5.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm"
            ],
            "state": "latest",
            "update_cache": false,
            "validate_certs": true
        },
        "module_name": "yum"
    },
    "msg": "No Package matching '/nfs/RPMS/mypkg-5.5.2-1.el6.x86_64.rpm' found available, installed or updated",
    "rc": 0,
    "results": []
}

But both machines mount this NFS share and I can stat the file on both the ansible server and the remotehost.

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks,
Giovanni

[Artyom Aleksandrov]

Check yum module documentation and take a look on state attribute.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/yum_module.html

You use present which mean - check if package install and install if not.
If you want to upgrade use latest.