apt Module does not support "/target_release" option ?

[Xavier Krantz]

Hello every body !

In my company we are using Reprepro as a Debian repository manager.

This manager doest not allow multiple versions of a same package identified by its name.

So we have organized or build promotion workflow using multiple distributions :  Demo / Staging / Production / Archives

As a result,  we were using simple shell scripts for our deployment with the following syntax : 

apt-get install <pakage_name>/<release_name>

That has the advantage to force a downgrade of the package and behave pretty much like this command for a selection.

apt-get install <package_name>=<version>

However, it seems that Ansible APT module does not support this format with the parameter "name"

msg: No package matching 'PKG_NAME/demo' is available

Whereas : 

# apt-get install PKG_NAME/demo

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Selected version '2.4.0-1.0.0+128.g8cd3d55' (company-demo:6.0/demo [all]) for 'PKG_NAME'

The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:

  PKG_NAME

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.

Need to get 65.9 MB of archives.

After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

Abort.

Have you any idea how I could do it ?

Is it a good idea to use distributions like this ?

Any point of view ?

Thanks a lot for your feed back :)