Your message dated Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:35:05 -0400 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Ansible apt module "changed": false has caused the Debian Bug report #805137, regarding The "apt" module says "changed": false even though packages, were deinstalled to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: ansible Version: 1.7.2+dfsg-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I ran this command: ansible -i hosts all -m apt -a 'update_cache=yes upgrade=full' where the 'hosts' file contained these lines: localhost [all:vars] ansible_ssh_user=root And got this output: localhost | success >> { "changed": false, "msg": "Reading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nReading extended state information...\nInitializing package states...\nWriting extended state information...\nReading task descriptions...\nBuilding tag database...\nThe following packages will be REMOVED:\n bsdtar{u} ruby-celluloid{u} ruby-childprocess{u} ruby-erubis{u} \n ruby-ffi{u} ruby-i18n{u} ruby-listen{u} ruby-log4r{u} ruby-net-scp{u} \n ruby-net-ssh{u} ruby-nokogiri{u} ruby-rb-inotify{u} ruby-timers{u} \n0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 13 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 4,132 kB will be freed.\nWriting extended state information...\n(Reading database ... \r(Reading database ... 5%\r(Reading database ... 10%\r(Reading database ... 15%\r(Reading database ... 20%\r(Reading database ... 25%\r(Reading database ... 30%\r(Reading database ... 35%\r(Reading database ... 40%\r(Reading database ... 45%\r(Reading database ... 50%\r(Reading database ... 55%\r(Reading database ... 60%\r(Reading database ... 65%\r(Reading database ... 70%\r(Reading database ... 75%\r(Reading database ... 80%\r(Reading database ... 85%\r(Reading database ... 90%\r(Reading database ... 95%\r(Reading database ... 100%\r(Reading database ... 238878 files and directories currently installed.)\r\nRemoving bsdtar (3.1.2-11) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-listen (2.4.0-4) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-celluloid (0.15.2-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-childprocess (0.5.5-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-erubis (2.7.0-3) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-rb-inotify (0.9.5-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-ffi (1.9.6debian-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-i18n (0.6.9-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-log4r (1.1.10-4) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-net-scp (1.2.1-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-net-ssh (1:2.9.1-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-nokogiri (1.6.3.1+ds-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-timers (1.1.0-2) ...\r\nProcessing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...\r\nProcessing triggers for doc-base (0.10.6) ...\r\nProcessing 1 removed doc-base file...\r\nReading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nReading extended state information...\nInitializing package states...\nWriting extended state information...\nReading task descriptions...\nBuilding tag database...\n", "stderr": "", ... 45%\r(Reading database ... 50%\r(Reading database ... 55%\r(Reading database ... 60%\r(Reading database ... 65%\r(Reading database ... 70%\r(Reading database ... 75%\r(Reading database ... 80%\r(Reading database ... 85%\r(Reading database ... 90%\r(Reading database ... 95%\r(Reading database ... 100%\r(Reading database ... 238878 files and directories currently installed.)\r\nRemoving bsdtar (3.1.2-11) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-listen (2.4.0-4) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-celluloid (0.15.2-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-childprocess (0.5.5-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-erubis (2.7.0-3) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-rb-inotify (0.9.5-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-ffi (1.9.6debian-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-i18n (0.6.9-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-log4r (1.1.10-4) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-net-scp (1.2.1-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-net-ssh (1:2.9.1-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-nokogiri (1.6.3.1+ds-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-timers (1.1.0-2) ...\r\nProcessing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...\r\nProcessing triggers for doc-base (0.10.6) ...\r\nProcessing 1 removed doc-base file...\r\nReading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nReading extended state information...\nInitializing package states...\nWriting extended state information...\nReading task descriptions...\nBuilding tag database...\n" } "stdout": "Reading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nReading extended state information...\nInitializing package states...\nWriting extended state information...\nReading task descriptions...\nBuilding tag database...\nThe following packages will be REMOVED:\n bsdtar{u} ruby-celluloid{u} ruby-childprocess{u} ruby-erubis{u} \n ruby-ffi{u} ruby-i18n{u} ruby-listen{u} ruby-log4r{u} ruby-net-scp{u} \n ruby-net-ssh{u} ruby-nokogiri{u} ruby-rb-inotify{u} ruby-timers{u} \n0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 13 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 4,132 kB will be freed.\nWriting extended state information...\n(Reading database ... \r(Reading database ... 5%\r(Reading database ... 10%\r(Reading database ... 15%\r(Reading database ... 20%\r(Reading database ... 25%\r(Reading database ... 30%\r(Reading database ... 35%\r(Reading database ... 40%\r(Reading database ... 45%\r(Reading database ... 50%\r(Reading database ... 55%\r(Reading database ... 60%\r(Reading database ... 65%\r(Reading database ... 70%\r(Reading database ... 75%\r(Reading database ... 80%\r(Reading database ... 85%\r(Reading database ... 90%\r(Reading database ... 95%\r(Reading database ... 100%\r(Reading database ... 238878 files and directories currently installed.)\r\nRemoving bsdtar (3.1.2-11) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-listen (2.4.0-4) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-celluloid (0.15.2-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-childprocess (0.5.5-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-erubis (2.7.0-3) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-rb-inotify (0.9.5-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-ffi (1.9.6debian-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-i18n (0.6.9-2) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-log4r (1.1.10-4) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-net-scp (1.2.1-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-net-ssh (1:2.9.1-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-nokogiri (1.6.3.1+ds-1) ...\r\nRemoving ruby-timers (1.1.0-2) ...\r\nProcessing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...\r\nProcessing triggers for doc-base (0.10.6) ...\r\nProcessing 1 removed doc-base file...\r\nReading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nReading extended state information...\nInitializing package states...\nWriting extended state information...\nReading task descriptions...\nBuilding tag database...\n" } The output clearly indicates that packages were removed, but still the second line is "changed": false, which is inaccurate. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages ansible depends on: ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-crypto 2.6.1-5+b2 ii python-httplib2 0.9+dfsg-2 ii python-jinja2 2.7.3-1 ii python-paramiko 1.15.1-1 ii python-pkg-resources 5.5.1-1 ii python-yaml 3.11-2 Versions of packages ansible recommends: ii python-selinux 2.3-2 Versions of packages ansible suggests: pn ansible-doc <none> pn sshpass <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2.0.2.0-1 Hello! This has been fixed in newer versions of Ansible. Sincerely, -- Harlan Lieberman-Berg ~hlieberman
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