We manage both Ubuntu and RedHat/Fedora systems from the same playbooks. One of the tools that has been very helpful for us in this is the generic “package” module. However, with the recent change to the yum lock timeout behavior with ansible 2.8, we are now required to set a long “lock_timeout” to avoid yum failing during the periodic (hourly) yum cache updates and other operations. This parameter breaks using package with apt:
Unsupported parameters for (apt) module: lock_timeout
So, any suggestions as to how to make the package module useful again?
- Orion
"package" was always 'limited' in functionality, you just happened not
to hit the issue of 'different options needed for the underlying
package OS modules' until we added the lock option to the yum module.
This is NOT a change to the package action and can happen again for
any/all other package OS modules that it calls in the end, since it
cannot currently validate arguments nor be selective on which ones it
passes, it is only useful for the 'lowest common denominator' set of
options.