I came from running Debian a long time ago, and have been an apt-get user for a long time.
Aptitude support came in with a patch for upgrade modes, as is noted below. If these can be done without aptitude cleanly, I am quite open to it, unless other longtime Ubuntu/Debian folks have suggestions as to why we should not. - Three of the upgrade modes (C(full), C(safe) and its alias C(yes)) require C(aptitude), otherwise C(apt-get) suffices. On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Serge van Ginderachter < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 24 October 2014 16:29, Goran Jurić <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am running multiple services on lean (minimal) containers on Debian and >> aptitude package needs to be installed on the target system if you want to >> run: >> >> "apt: upgrade=full" command >> >> Is there a command that does the same but uses apt-get instead? >> > > Right now, the ansible apt module doesn't give you that choice, no. > > >> >> Installing aptitude pulls in a bunch of dependencies and I would like to >> avoid that if possible. >> > > > This is actually a good question. Even as a longtime Debian/Ubuntu user, > I still find it confusing to choose between apt-get and aptitude. > So far, the ansible module doesn't give an admin the choice here, which he > would have been accustomed (or not) to have when doing things manually. > > Perhaps this should be revisited, and let the module e.g. use at-get by > default, and aptitude as an option? > Also, keep in mind that some functionalities (updating sources I believe) > are not done by cli directly, but by a python library. > > > Thoughts, fellow more-expert-Debian users? > > > Serge > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEhzMJAFPwPtze%2BfGEPZW7d_DxxHD_j5jLu4ap6XGhB4fTNnVA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAEhzMJAFPwPtze%2BfGEPZW7d_DxxHD_j5jLu4ap6XGhB4fTNnVA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgwHvw16LDCWMocg7RoRmJ_XJXZb5%2BJ084iYgqjXAGp2Ew%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
