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| author | Toshio Kuratomi <toshio@fedoraproject.org> | 2015-07-09 08:16:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Toshio Kuratomi <toshio@fedoraproject.org> | 2015-07-09 08:17:00 -0700 |
| commit | d46c036b75a82a07c42731154677512d069c4386 (patch) | |
| tree | bcb42838dfe0e34be9e07ae58fd9c7c86a8e5607 | |
| parent | 007efe438d84058490d6e29f7091d9e58a0bc42c (diff) | |
| download | ansible-modules-core-d46c036b75a82a07c42731154677512d069c4386.tar.gz | |
Add notes about loop squashing and 1.9.2 change to install packages in one yum transaction
| -rw-r--r-- | packaging/os/yum.py | 16 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/os/yum.py b/packaging/os/yum.py index 14339b4c..29d6b010 100644 --- a/packaging/os/yum.py +++ b/packaging/os/yum.py @@ -118,10 +118,22 @@ options: choices: ["yes", "no"] aliases: [] -notes: [] +notes: + - When used with a loop of package names in a playbook, ansible optimizes + the call to the yum module. Instead of calling the module with a single + package each time through the loop, ansible calls the module once with all + of the package names from the loop. + - In versions prior to 1.9.2 this module installed and removed each package + given to the yum module separately. This caused problems when packages + specified by filename or url had to be installed or removed together. In + 1.9.2 this was fixed so that packages are installed in one yum + transaction. However, if one of the packages adds a new yum repository + that the other packages come from (such as epel-release) then that package + needs to be installed in a separate task. This mimics yum's command line + behaviour. # informational: requirements for nodes requirements: [ yum ] -author: +author: - "Ansible Core Team" - "Seth Vidal" ''' |