I have an ansible playbook developed using Chocolatey to upgrade a set of packages. However, I want the playbook to only upgrade a package if it is installed and skip if the package is not present. However, what the playbook is doing is upgrading present packages but installing the packages that are not present. I know from the playbook that it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do because of the state being set to latest. What I want to know is how to modify the playbook to only upgrade present packages (possibly using a when: statement) but I cannot seem to find anything out there to help with this. Thanks in advance.
Below is the ansible playbook. And yes, I know I could include the packages in a loop rather than running them one at a time but I found that is not as verbose as I would like.
---
- hosts: all
tasks:
- name: Update putty on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: putty
state: latest
- name: Update WinSCP on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: winscp
state: latest
- name: Update Notepad++ on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: notepadplusplus
state: latest
- name: Update SQL Server Management Studio on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: sql-server-management-studio
state: latest
- name: Update Firefox on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: firefox
state: latest
- name: Update Google Chrome on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: googlechrome
state: latest
- name: Update Brave Browser on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: brave
state: latest
- name: Update 7zip on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: 7zip
state: latest
- name: Update TreeSize Free on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: treesizefree
state: latest
- name: Update Wireshark on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: wireshark
state: latest
- name: Update PowerBI data gateway on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: powerbigateway
state: latest
- name: Update RVTools on Windows machines
win_chocolatey:
name: rvtools
state: latest
In addition to the answer provided by @Windos, you may want to look at the skipPackageUpgradesWhenNotInstalled configuration option. From the docs page:
skipPackageUpgradesWhenNotInstalled - Skip Packages Not Installed During Upgrade - if a package is not installed, do not install it during the upgrade process.
This feature is disabled by default, but you should be able to enable it as part of your playbook. From the documentation for the collection:
- name: Enable Chocolatey Feature to skip not installed packages
win_chocolatey_feature:
name: skipPackageUpgradesWhenNotInstalled
state: enabled
Off the top of my head, I am not sure whether the exit code from Chocolatey changes if it actually skips a package since it wasn't installed, so this might be something that you want to test to ensure it doesn't impact on anything else that you are trying to do with the playbook.