# Ansilbe apt handling of dpkg\_options **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ubuntu\ **Created:** [December 9, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansilbe-apt-handling-of-dpkg-options/23216 "2016-12-09T16:41:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adam.frederick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@adam.frederick](https://forum.ansible.com/u/adam.frederick)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2016, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansilbe-apt-handling-of-dpkg-options/23216/1 "2016-12-09T16:41:54Z")
I am attempting to perform the follow in order to only upgrade ubuntu security updates… apt: upgrade=yes update\_cache=yes dpkg\_options=‘Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list’ and I receive the following error message… FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “msg”: “‘/usr/bin/aptitude safe-upgrade’ failed: E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)\nFailed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover:\n”, “stdout”: "Reading package lists…\nBuilding dependency tree…\nReading state information…\nReading extended state information…\nInitializing package states…\nBuilding tag database…\nThe following packages will be upgraded:\n apport libc-bin libc6 locales multiarch-support python3-apport \n python3-problem-report snapd \n8 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 0 B/12.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 623 kB will be freed.\nWriting extended state information…\nPreconfiguring packages …\ndpkg: error: unknown option --Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list\r\n\r\nType dpkg I am trying to replicate this functioning command… apt update && apt-get upgrade -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list Any advice on the best way to handle this or some better examples on dpkg\_options? Thank you, Adam ---
**Author:** ![adam.frederick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@adam.frederick](https://forum.ansible.com/u/adam.frederick)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansilbe-apt-handling-of-dpkg-options/23216/2 "2017-01-13T14:44:19Z")
Any help on this? This is still an issue. It appears the module ignores any other source files I have and just uses sources.list. Any suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansilbe-apt-handling-of-dpkg-options/23216/3 "2017-01-13T15:28:00Z")
> I am attempting to perform the follow in order to only upgrade ubuntu > security updates... > >     apt: upgrade=yes update\_cache=yes > dpkg\_options='Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list' The dpkg\_options is for the "-o Dpkg::Options::=--\" where \ is what you add to the dpkg\_options. > I am trying to replicate this functioning command... > > apt update && apt-get upgrade -o > Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list > > Any advice on the best way to handle this or some better examples on > dpkg\_options? apt module doesn't support Dir::Etc::SourceList so the shell module is an alternative. - shell: apt update && apt-get upgrade -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/security.sources.list ---
**Author:** ![adam.frederick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@adam.frederick](https://forum.ansible.com/u/adam.frederick)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansilbe-apt-handling-of-dpkg-options/23216/4 "2017-01-16T15:40:30Z")
Thank you! That did it!