Fix apt module to be able to install package by giving just a provides and not the full name

The apt module check if a packag eis valid by loking in the cache, checking only for
full name, while it should also check that the name is not just provided.
Fix https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5177
reviewable/pr18780/r1
Michael Scherer 11 years ago
parent e2c244664c
commit 93105ea590

@ -169,6 +169,8 @@ def package_status(m, pkgname, version, cache, state):
ll_pkg = cache._cache[pkgname] # the low-level package object
except KeyError:
if state == 'install':
if cache.get_providing_packages(pkgname):
return False, True, False
m.fail_json(msg="No package matching '%s' is available" % pkgname)
else:
return False, False, False

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