apt module is not installing anything if package source is standard apt repository

[f.floimai...@gmail.com]

Hi!

I'm having an issue with the apt module and my playbook with Ansible 2.5.3 (2.5.2 is behaving the same).

I'm running the following playbook snippet:

 tasks:

    - name: Install packages required for VMs

      apt:

        name {{ item }} state=present

      with_items:

        - cifs-utils

        - etckeeper

 

The output for all packages is "OK" as if it would be already installed, but it is not.

A later step that mounts a cifs share fails because cifs-utils is in fact not installed (if I run apt-get install cifs-utils directly on the host it would install it, therefore it wasn't there before).

Any hint what might be the problem here?

[f.floimai...@gmail.com]

Just as a follow-up:

If i install a .deb package directly that works flawlessly. Only if the source is the regular apt list, then this happens

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 28.05.2018 16:04, f.floimai...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm running the following playbook snippet:
>
> tasks:
> - name: Install packages required for VMs
> apt:
> name {{ item }} state=present
> with_items:
> - cifs-utils
> - etckeeper
>
> The output for all packages is "OK" as if it would be already
> installed,
> but it is not.
> A later step that mounts a cifs share fails because cifs-utils is in
> fact
> not installed (if I run apt-get install cifs-utils directly on the host
> it
> would install it, therefore it wasn't there before).
>
> Any hint what might be the problem here?

Syntax error, missing equal sign after name.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[f.floimai...@gmail.com]

Oh man, i feel stupid.

That did the trick.

Thanks a lot!