Module - check_package_update

This module provides for the following ansible plugin:

• check_package_update

Module Documentation

Check for available updates for given packages

Options

packages_list

The names of the packages you want to check

pkg_mgr

Supported Package Manager, DNF or YUM

Authors

Florian Fuchs

Jiri Podivin (@jpodivin)

Example Tasks

- hosts: webservers
  tasks:
  - name: Get available updates for packages
    check_package_update:
      packages_list:
      - coreutils
      - wget
      pkg_mgr: '{{ ansible_pkg_mgr }}'