# Ansible Galaxy role versioning **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** galaxy-ng\ **Created:** [November 13, 2014, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-role-versioning/16765 "2014-11-13T06:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![willthames](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@willthames](https://forum.ansible.com/u/willthames)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 6:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-role-versioning/16765/1 "2014-11-13T06:17:54Z")
Is it possible to request a specific tag/version when installing a role from [galaxy.ansible.com](http://galaxy.ansible.com)? Obviously there is a workaround of pointing at the github repo and choosing a commit id, but I was curious whether the concept of versioning galaxy roles exists? Perhaps there’s not much call for it - perhaps roles in galaxy never change, or those changes are always backwards-compatible. Will ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-role-versioning/16765/2 "2014-11-13T13:16:06Z")
from the man page: “ansible-galaxy install [options] [-r FILE | role\_name(s)[,version] | tar\_file(s)]” if version is omitted the latest one is used. ---
**Author:** ![willthames](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@willthames](https://forum.ansible.com/u/willthames)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-role-versioning/16765/3 "2014-11-13T21:19:37Z")
I was trying to do it using the -r spec file. But I’ll have another look next week. I thought it was galaxy that needed to understand versions but perhaps it just uses the underlying repo versions.