Ansible Role: apt

Setup APT repositories, configuration snippets and pinning.

Requirements

An Ansible 2.4 or higher installation.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml).

apt_packages: [apt-transport-https]

Packages to install to provide additional functionalities.

apt_remove_sources: yes

Remove /etc/apt/sources.list file. On a newly installed Debian system this file contains only the official Debian repositories. This file can be safely removed as this role reinstalls these sources under /etc/apt/sources.d.

apt_remove_sources_d: no

Remove every file under /etc/apt/sources.list.d before adding any new repository. This can be dangerous when you already have third party repositories configured. Set this variable to yes only if you want this role to handle everithing in /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

apt_remove_conf: yes

Remove /etc/apt/apt.conf. On newly installed Debian system this file does not exist, everithing is configured under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d.

apt_remove_conf_d: no

Remove every file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d before adding new configuration snipptes . On newly installed Debian system everything is configured through files under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d so removing them can be dangerous. Set this variable to yes ony if you want to this role to handle everything in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d.

apt_remove_preferences: yes

Remove /etc/apt/preferences. On newly installed Debian system this file does not exist.

apt_remove_preferences_d: no

Remove every file under /etc/apt/preferences.d before adding new pinning preferences. This can be dangerous when you already have third party repositories preferences configured. Set this variable to yes only if you want this role to handle everything in /etc/apt/preferences.d.

apt_sources_default:
  - name: debian
    uri: https://deb.debian.org/debian
    suites:
      - "{{ ansible_distribution_release | lower }}"
    components:
      - main
    options: {}
    src: yes
    gpg_fingerprint: null
    gpg_keyserver: null
    gpg_url: null
  - name: debian-security
    uri: https://deb.debian.org/debian-security
    suites:
      - "{{ ansible_distribution_release | lower }}/updates"
    components:
      - main
    options: {}
    src: yes
    gpg_fingerprint: null
    gpg_keyserver: null
    gpg_url: null

apt_sources_custom: []

List of default and user-defined repositories (merged at runtime). Dictionary fields's semantics:

• name: repository name.

  File /etc/apt/sources.list.d/{{ name }}.sources will be created containing the repository definition.

• uri: repository URI.

• suites: repository suites list (e.g. stretch, stable).

• components: repository components list (e.g. main, contrib, non-free).

• options: repository options dict (e.g. Arch: amd64).

• src: whether or not to include the corrisponding source repository.

• gpg_fingerprint: fingerprint of the key used to authenticate the repository.

  File /usr/share/keyrings/{{ name }}.gpg will be created containing the repository key.

  File /etc/apt/preferences.d/{{ name }} will be created containing the repository pinning preferences.

• gpg_keyserver: keyserver address to retrieve the key.

• gpg_url: URL to retrieve the key.

  Note that gpg_keyserver has precedence over gpg_url if both are defined.

apt_conf_files: []

List of files to add under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d.

apt_preferences_files: []

List of files to add under /etc/apt/preferences.d.

Dependencies

None.

Testing

This role uses molecule to implement automatic testing of its functionalities.

To execute the tests

pip install tox

git clone https://github.com/lnovara/ansible-apt.git

cd ansible-apt

# test all the scenarios
tox

Example Playbook

- name: Setup APT on all hosts.
  hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: lnovara.apt

License

MIT

Author Information

Luca Novara