Ansilbe apt handling of dpkg_options

[adam.fr...@gmail.com]

I am attempting to perform the follow in order to only upgrade ubuntu security updates...

    apt: upgrade=yes update_cache=yes dpkg_options='Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list'

and I receive the following error message...

 FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "'/usr/bin/aptitude safe-upgrade' failed: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)\nFailed to perform requested operation on package.  Trying to recover:\n", "stdout": "Reading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nReading extended state information...\nInitializing package states...\nBuilding tag database...\nThe following packages will be upgraded:\n  apport libc-bin libc6 locales multiarch-support python3-apport \n  python3-problem-report snapd \n8 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 0 B/12.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 623 kB will be freed.\nWriting extended state information...\nPreconfiguring packages ...\ndpkg: error: unknown option --Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list\r\n\r\nType dpkg

I am trying to replicate this functioning command... 

apt update && apt-get upgrade -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list

Any advice on the best way to handle this or some better examples on dpkg_options?

Thank you,
Adam

[adam.fr...@gmail.com]

Any help on this?  This is still an issue.  It appears the module ignores any other source files I have and just uses sources.list.  Any suggestions?

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 09. des. 2016 17:41, adam.fr...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am attempting to perform the follow in order to only upgrade ubuntu
> security updates...
>
> apt: upgrade=yes update_cache=yes
> dpkg_options='Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list'

The dpkg_options is for the "-o Dpkg::Options::=--<something>" where
<something> is what you add to the dpkg_options.

> I am trying to replicate this functioning command...
>
> apt update && apt-get upgrade -o
> Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list
>
> Any advice on the best way to handle this or some better examples on
> dpkg_options?

apt module doesn't support Dir::Etc::SourceList so the shell module is
an alternative.

- shell: apt update && apt-get upgrade -o
Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list

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Kai Stian Olstad

[adam.fr...@gmail.com]

Thank you!  That did it!