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This role manages opkg packages on OpenWrt nodes.
You can install packages for a specific host:
openwrt_packages_installhost:
- "vim-fuller"
- "htop"
- "vnstat2"
You can also install packages for a group of nodes. You can specify in ./group_vars/allhosts.yml using the variable openwrt_packagesgroup:
openwrt_packages_installgroup:
accesspoints:
- "ath10k-firmware-qca988x"
- "ath9k-htc-firmware"
- "ath10k-board-qca988x"
- "kmod-ath9k-common"
- "kmod-ath9k"
- "kmod-ath10k"
pcenginesapu:
- "flashrom"
You can of course also remove packages, use the corresponding variables:
Other roles that need specific packages installed, make use of the packages role. In the meta description variables are being set and a dependency to this role is defined.
Here is an example from ansible_openwrtrestic.
dependencies:
- role: imp1sh.ansible_openwrt.ansible_openwrtpackages
vars:
openwrt_packages_installrole:
- restic
- openssh-client-utils
- shadow-usermod