Curious how the holds got placed?


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Benjamin Copeland <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hello Michael,
>
> I am using dpkg, so dpkg --get-selections | grep "openssh-*".
>
> apt-get upgrade, by default won't upgrade held packages.
>
> There is a option in apt-get manual:
>
>        --ignore-hold
>            Ignore package Holds; This causes apt-get to ignore a hold
> placed on a package. This may be
>            useful in conjunction with dist-upgrade to override a large
> number of undesired holds.
>            Configuration Item: APT::Ignore-Hold.
>
> Which, I assume then will overwrite the default behavior.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ben
>
> On Friday, 26 September 2014 13:33:11 UTC+1, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>
>> Where are you seeing the output of what is "held back" and so on?  That's
>> usually what you see during an update, so it seems some steps
>> are not being executed by Ansible, and that's confusing me a little.
>>
>> Can you show the commands executed?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Benjamin Copeland <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> - name: hold openssh-client only if OS is 12.04
>>>   shell: echo "openssh-client hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
>>>   when: ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu' and
>>> ansible_distribution_release == 'precise'
>>>
>>> - name: hold openssh-server only if OS is 12.04
>>>   shell: echo "openssh-server hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections
>>>   when: ansible_distribution == 'Ubuntu' and
>>> ansible_distribution_release == 'precise'
>>>
>>> - name: update and upgrade a server
>>>   apt: upgrade=safe update_cache=yes
>>>   sudo: yes
>>>
>>>
>>> The package is "held" it dpkg.
>>>
>>> openssh-client hold
>>> openssh-server hold
>>>
>>>
>>> The state of apt before ansible:
>>>
>>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>>   linux-headers-generic linux-headers-virtual linux-image-virtual
>>> linux-virtual openssh-client openssh-server
>>>
>>> After deploy:
>>>
>>> The following packages have been kept back:
>>>   linux-headers-generic linux-headers-virtual linux-image-virtual
>>> linux-virtual
>>>
>>>
>>> I would have thought, using the safe-upgrade should have stopped openssh
>>> being upgraded.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
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