In answer to #2540, `aptitude` was introduced as tool of choice for running
upgrades in the apt module and installing new packages that arise as
dependencies during upgrades.
This recently lead to problems, as for example Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) ships
without aptitude (installed).
Studying the man pages of both apt-get and aptitude, it appears that we can
achieve the effects of `aptitude safe-upgrade` using
```
apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs --autoremove
```
while `aptitude full-upgrade` seems to be identical to `apt-get dist-upgrade`.
We use `apt-get` as described above as a fall-back in case that `aptitude`
cannot be found, issuing a warning when it does so.
Furthermore it introduces a flag `force_apt_get` which may be used to enforce
usage of apt-get (which does not issue a warning).
The integration tests are updated accordingly.
Cf. also the discussion in #27370.
Fixes#18987
It's not clear from the docs whether you need to set `update_cache`
when using `cache_valid_time`.
Setting `cache_valid_time` should imply `update_cache`. Update docs
to reflect this.
* apt: include arch in check for installed packages on multi-arch systems
Thanks: Stefan Löwen <stefan.loewen@gmail.com>
Fixes: #24673
* add an integration test for apt's multi-arch handling
- Removed alias autoclean from autoremove.
- Added independent execution of apt-get autoclean/autoremove
- Continued to support --auto-remove as a flag to install/remove
Fixes#22222#24718
We invoke /usr/bin/apt inside of the ansible module. When that command
exits, it doesn't always include a helpful error message. Include the
exit code so that user's have all the information we can gice them as to
why apt failed.
Addresses #19128
Changes to the metadata format were approved here:
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/54
* Update documentation to the new metadata format
* Changes to metadata-tool to account for new metadata
* Add GPL license header
* Add upgrade subcommand to upgrade metadata version
* Change default metadata to the new format
* Fix exclusion of non-modules from the metadata report
* Fix ansible-doc for new module metadata
* Exclude metadata version from ansible-doc output
* Fix website docs generation for the new metadata
* Update metadata schema in valiate-modules test
* Update the metadata in all modules to the new version
* the `only_update` param description was kinda vague:
* either install if not installed
* or upgrade if installed
* or both!?
* as a result, remove the "install" statement from this sentence
Resolves:
Related:
Signed-off-by: Daniel Andrei Minca <mandrei17@gmail.com>
* apt: If the cache object fails to lost due to a corrupt file, try to update the cache until it is fixed.
* Append -q to the update parameters
* Remove unused variable
* Use a string that doesn't rely on internationalization
* Use py24 exception style
* Use get_exception
Fixes#2951
builddep only requires a source package to be in the repos but our code
was checking for a binary package before running buiddep. Reversing the
order makes it work correctly.
Fixes#4519
This change is in response to issue #1497 where the apt module would not properly updating the apt cache in some situations and never returned a state change on cache update when the module was used without or without an item to be installed or upgraded.
The change simply allows the apt module to update the cache when update_cache option is used without or without a set cache_valid_time.
If cache_valid_time is set and the on disk mtime for apt cache is ">" the provided amount of seconds, which now has a default of 0, the apt cache will be updated. Additionally if no upgrade, package, or deb is installed or changed but the apt cache is updated the module will return a changed state which will help users to know that the state of the environment has changed due to a task operation, even if it was only an apt cache update.
fixes#1497
Signed-off-by: Kevin Carter <kevin.carter@rackspace.com>
- Use range instead of xrange.
- Use python3-apt package for python 3.
- Eliminate unsupported for/else/raise usage.
- Use list on dict.items when modifying dict.
- Update requirements documentation.
Also made non-intrustive style fixes (adding blank lines).
Fix KeyError: 'prepared' while installing dependencies using deb=<file>.deb
This error shows up when --diff was not passed by and the deb files has dependencies not yet installed.
Closes#3752.
for install, remove, deb_install, and upgrade.
Since apt has very commonly familiar output, just use the normal output
from apt-get or aptitude -- trimmed to the interesting parts -- to show
to the user if she specified --diff on the CLI.
Uses the recent support for the `diff['prepared]` key.
Fixesansible/ansible#10239
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