yum exclude & loop with ansible 2.5

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Hi,

I start to work with Ansible lately.

I would like to run ‘yum install’ on a list of packages. I have:

- name: install these items
yum:
name: “{{item}}”
exclude: package4*
update_cache: yes
state: present
skip_broken: yes
with_lines: cat “path_to_file/yum_packages.txt”

File yum_packages.txt contain:

package1

package2

package3

package4

  1. The exclude ignored, it trying to install package4 even that it in the exclude line.
    I tried also to read the package in different way:
    with_items:

- package1
- package2
- package3

- package4

Still dont work.

  1. It give me a message that ‘with_lines’ & ‘with_items’ deprecation and should use the ‘loop’ instead. when I change it to ‘loop’ if said that :

Invalid data passed to ‘loop’ it requires a list, got this instead: cat "/path/to/file/yum_packages.txt"

‘loop’ work okay with a fix list like:
loop:

  • package1
  • package2
    …
    How can I read with ‘loop’ data from a file?

Thanks.