Update: As of Ansible 2.0, there is now a generic & abstracted package module Usage Examples: Now when the package name is the same across different OS families, it’s as simple as: — – name: Install foo package: name=foo state=latest When the package name differs across OS families, you can handle it with distribution or … Read more
Have you tried this? $ yum list installed bind
With yum-utils installed, repoquery will provide the information you seek (here ‘epel’ being the repository). $ repoquery -i cherokee Name : cherokee Version : 0.99.49 Release : 1.el5 Architecture: i386 Size : 8495964 Packager : Fedora Project Group : Applications/Internet URL : http://www.cherokee-project.com/ Repository : epel Summary : Flexible and Fast Webserver Description : Cherokee … Read more
Many people seem to be afraid of mixing stable with testing, but frankly, testing is fairly stable in its own right, and with proper preferences and solution checking, you can avoid the “stability drift” that puts your core packages on the unstable path. “Testing is fairly stable??”, you ask. Yes. In order for a package … Read more
This may work: For example: then, if you want, you can delete your previous version with: Where, in your case, NEW_VERSION = 5.4 OLD_VERSION = 5.0 Alternatively, try: