# variations on distro and version?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/variations-on-distro-and-version/12786>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [May 9, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variations-on-distro-and-version/12786 "2013-05-09T13:32:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variations-on-distro-and-version/12786/1 "2013-05-09T13:32:39Z")

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​ansible does not provide high level modules to manage 'packages' but ​has  
distro specific modules, like yup and apt.

If you manage different distro's, you could write a specific playbook per  
distro, handling the differences you mention.  
Then you target those playbooks to only the hosts runing that specific  
distro after you created dynamic groups based on the distro name with the  
group\_by module.

Serge