portinstall - Installing packages from FreeBSD’s ports system

Author:berenddeboer

Synopsis

New in version 1.3.

Manage packages for FreeBSD using ‘portinstall’.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
name yes
    name of package to install/remove
    state no present
    • present
    • absent
    state of the package
    use_packages no True
    • yes
    • no
    use packages instead of ports whenever available

    Examples


    # Install package foo
    - portinstall: name=foo state=present
    
    # Install package security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
    - portinstall: name=security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd state=present
    
    # Remove packages foo and bar
    - portinstall: name=foo,bar state=absent