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Author SHA1 Message Date
Valentin Krasontovitsch cfff72e9db Use apt-get as fallback for apt upgrade
In answer to #2540, `aptitude` was introduced as tool of choice for running
upgrades in the apt module and installing new packages that arise as
dependencies during upgrades.

This recently lead to problems, as for example Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) ships
without aptitude (installed).

Studying the man pages of both apt-get and aptitude, it appears that we can
achieve the effects of `aptitude safe-upgrade` using

```
apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs --autoremove
```

while `aptitude full-upgrade` seems to be identical to `apt-get dist-upgrade`.

We use `apt-get` as described above as a fall-back in case that `aptitude`
cannot be found, issuing a warning when it does so.

Furthermore it introduces a flag `force_apt_get` which may be used to enforce
usage of apt-get (which does not issue a warning).

The integration tests are updated accordingly.

Cf. also the discussion in #27370.

Fixes #18987
7 years ago
David Newswanger ca16956337 added integration tests for apt upgrade (#25670)
* added integration tests for apt upgrade

changed version number for hello to 2.6 so that it works with Ubuntu 12.04

prevent tests from checking if aptitude is installed on non ubuntu systems

changed ordering on when statements for safe and full upgrade types so that the OS check happens before the aptitude check

added integration tests for apt upgrade

changed version number for hello to 2.6 so that it works with Ubuntu 12.04

* Moved additions to tasks/main.yml to make revisions easier. Changed tasks to multiline format
8 years ago