# Ansible on Freebsd with pkgng **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [November 12, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-freebsd-with-pkgng/16761 "2014-11-12T21:11:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Laurentius\_Purba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@Laurentius\_Purba](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Laurentius_Purba)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-freebsd-with-pkgng/16761/1 "2014-11-12T21:11:29Z")
Hello all, I have question regarding pkgng for FreeBSD. The idea is I was trying to update php on one of our development servers. The current php version installed is 5.4.28, while we have on the port (/usr/ports/lang/php5) is 5.4.34. Below is the playbook that I have: - hosts: 10.0.21.99 remote\_user: jdoe sudo: yes tasks: - name: Upgrade php5 pkgng: name=lang/php5 state=present cached=yes From the command line, I executed the following with the output: $\> ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/config/roles/common/tasks/php-upgrade.yml -K sudo password: PLAY [10.0.21.99] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* GATHERING FACTS \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [10.0.21.99] TASK: [Upgrade php5] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [10.0.21.99] PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* 10.0.21.99 : ok=2 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0 My question is, why I cannot upgrade my php version from what is install 5.4.28 to 5.434, even though I already use the cached=yes option. Thanks for your help, guys. -Laurentius ---
**Author:** ![Marcus\_Jaschen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@Marcus\_Jaschen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marcus_Jaschen)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-freebsd-with-pkgng/16761/2 "2014-11-16T18:42:48Z")
> Hello all, > > I have question regarding pkgng for FreeBSD. > > The idea is I was trying to update php on one of our development > servers. The current php version installed is 5.4.28, while we have on > the port (/usr/ports/lang/php5) is 5.4.34. > > Below is the playbook that I have: > > - hosts: 10.0.21.99 >   remote\_user: jdoe >   sudo: yes >   tasks: >     - name: Upgrade php5 >       pkgng: name=lang/php5 state=present cached=yes Hi Laurentius, other package manager modules (i. e. 'apt') support a `state=latest` option for upgrading already installed packages. According to the docs the pkgng unfortunately doesn't support the `latest` option for the `state` parameter. I don't know much about how pkgng works but maybe you can upgrade PHP if you uninstall the package first and afterwards re-install it. I don't have a FreeBSD box here, so I can't test it now… - hosts: 10.0.21.99    remote\_user: jdoe    sudo: yes    tasks:      - name: Uninstall php5        pkgng: name=lang/php5 state=absent      - name: Install php5        pkgng: name=lang/php5 state=present cached=no Marcus ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-freebsd-with-pkgng/16761/3 "2014-11-17T20:32:35Z")
If it makes sense, I’d be quite open to whatever it takes to make ‘latest’ work here. It is, I will say, not a primary OS for us – but it’s one we’re definitely committed to enabling development on.