A simple wrapper script that calls ansible-galaxy install but also enables transitive role requirement
(dependency) downloads based on the presence of roles' meta/requirements.yml files.
It's a simple bash script that wraps the call to ansible-galaxy install, passing in all the same options and
arguments. The wrapper script just delegates to this native ansible command.
However, once the native ansible-galaxy install command finishes, if anything has been downloaded, the script
checks to see if any downloaded roles have a meta/requirements.yml file. If so, the wrapper script
calls ansible-galaxy install on those requirements.yml files, passing along the same exact options that
you specified. It continues this process for all downloaded roles, walking the dependency tree
until all transitive requirements have been resolved via ansible-galaxy.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lhazlewood/ansible-galaxy-install/master/bin/ansible-galaxy-install -o ansible-galaxy-install
chmod ugo+x ansible-galaxy-install
# put ansible-galaxy-install somewhere in your $PATHOnce the ansible-galaxy-install script is added to your $PATH, just call ansible-galaxy-install
(with two dashes) instead of the native ansible-galaxy install (one dash, one space) command.
Use it identically to ansible-galaxy install, with all the same options and arguments. The wrapper script
just delegates to the native ansible command.
Note
This command only downloads transitive requirements for newly downloaded roles. If a
requirement has been downloaded already, it is skipped (and its meta/requirements.yml file - if any - is
not evaluated at all), which is standard ansible-galaxy behavior.
If you want to force downloads of the immediate requirements use the standard --force options. If you
want to force downloads of immediate requirements and their dependencies (and so on and so forth transitively),
use the standard --force-with-deps option.