# ignore errors **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 25, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723 "2012-07-25T13:49:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cosmin\_Luta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Cosmin\_Luta](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Cosmin_Luta)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/1 "2012-07-25T13:49:24Z")
Try: action: shell rpm -e $item --nodeps ; /bin/true Not tested. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/2 "2012-07-25T13:55:13Z")
Better yet, yum module with state=absent – Michael ---
**Author:** ![paweu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@paweu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/paweu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/3 "2012-07-25T13:58:10Z")
Works, Thank You 🙂 W dniu środa, 25 lipca 2012 15:49:24 UTC+2 użytkownik Cosmin Luță napisał: ---
**Author:** ![paweu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@paweu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/paweu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/4 "2012-07-25T14:00:13Z")
I cannnot see “absent” in documentation. Does it remove packages without dependencies? W dniu środa, 25 lipca 2012 15:55:13 UTC+2 użytkownik Michael DeHaan napisał: ---
**Author:** ![CWS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e495f1/32.png) [@CWS](https://forum.ansible.com/u/CWS)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/5 "2012-07-25T14:02:11Z")
[http://ansible.github.com/modules.html#yum](http://ansible.github.com/modules.html#yum) ansible is an alias for 'removed'. If it's installed, it will remove it. If it's not installed, it will do nothing. ---
**Author:** ![paweu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@paweu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/paweu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/6 "2012-07-25T14:05:16Z")
Yum module with state=removed removes packages with depencies and I would like to remove them without dependencies. W dniu środa, 25 lipca 2012 16:02:11 UTC+2 użytkownik \_ napisał: ---
**Author:** ![CWS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e495f1/32.png) [@CWS](https://forum.ansible.com/u/CWS)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/7 "2012-07-25T14:09:07Z")
I'm going to make an assumption here that it removes \*automatically installed\* dependencies. I don't see a reason for it not to do that. If you want to keep some other package that is a potential dependency of the ones you're removing, why not flag those for state=installed? ---
**Author:** ![paweu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@paweu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/paweu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/8 "2012-07-25T14:14:05Z")
Because there is a lot of them (\> 30). W dniu środa, 25 lipca 2012 16:09:07 UTC+2 użytkownik \_ napisał: ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/9 "2012-07-25T14:46:07Z")
Tip -- don't make assumptions, verify them first 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/10 "2012-07-25T14:47:37Z")
Every module that does this should support absent/present, as does yum, the other should be treated as an alias. Online docs need to be tweaked to be consistent with other modules, definitely. ---
**Author:** ![paweu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@paweu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/paweu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/11 "2012-07-25T15:04:24Z")
Is there any possibility that yum module will support removing packages withour dependencies? W dniu środa, 25 lipca 2012 16:47:37 UTC+2 użytkownik Michael DeHaan napisał: ---
**Author:** ![Seth\_Vidal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Seth\_Vidal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Seth_Vidal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/12 "2012-07-25T15:22:49Z")
okay - you need to explain your terms a bit better: A package's dependencies are the other pkgs it depends \_on\_ Dependencies on a package are other pkgs that depend on \_it\_ What you want is for yum to remove a package and not remove the packages which depend on it. that's called nodeps and that's NEVER going to happen in yum we even wrote a webpage about it: [http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/NoDeps](http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/NoDeps) also - by running rpm -e --nodeps like you've done -you've just about guaranteed that any support you seek for that system will be immediately blamed on the --nodeps removal. -sv ---
**Author:** ![paweu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@paweu](https://forum.ansible.com/u/paweu)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/13 "2012-07-25T19:03:20Z")
Thats ok, I just need some packages and don’t need some other packages. Will there be any functionality to skip errors or I need to stick with /bin/true? W dniu środa, 25 lipca 2012 17:22:49 UTC+2 użytkownik [skv...@fedoraproject.org](mailto:skv...@fedoraproject.org) napisał: ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ignore-errors/11723/14 "2012-07-25T19:09:28Z")
/bin/true for now. We should mention it in the web docs.