mark as upgradable and let apt-get install deal with it

10 years ago · 3c53b3b268
parent 043242df2c
commit 3c53b3b268
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/apt.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/apt.py
@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ def package_status(m, pkgname, version, cache, state):
                m.fail_json(msg="No package matching '%s' is available" % pkgname)
            except AttributeError:
                # python-apt version too old to detect virtual packages
-                m.fail_json(msg="No package matching '%s' is available (python-apt version too old to detect virtual packages)" % pkgname)
+                # mark as upgradable and let apt-get install deal with it
+                return False, True, False
        else:
            return False, False, False
    try: