Module apt pass dpkg options

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Hello everyone,

I have a quick question/request.
I have just finished rewriting a shell script which was used to

upgrade a given piece of software. Now it’s ansible playbook!

The one piece of functionality that I can’t find and need is to be
able to pass options to the apt-get command and more precisely

the DPkg::Options::

In particular I need to give it the option: “–force-confnew”

The script current does something like this:

apt-get --allow-unauthenticated -o DPkg::Options::=“–force-confnew” install packagename

So is there any way I can pass the -o DPkg::Options::=“–force-confnew” part to the
apt module the way it is right now?

It would be nice to have something like dpkg_options=“” in the apt module and or only options=“” for things like the --allow-unauthenticated.

Thanks,

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It seems like currently the apt ansible module hard-codes the following:

DPKG_OPTIONS = '-o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef" -o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold"'

Does it sound reasonable to have a "dpkg_options" parameter which will override the above if present?

The documentation should mention the default ones and say that if specified explicitly it will 
completely overwrite them.


Cheers,
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Go ahead and open up a github issue for this, and we’ll consider it.

Thanks!

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Thank you James. Appreciated!

I submitted issue https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3955 for this.

Regards,

Rumen Telbizov