Den 2 jun 2015 13:51 skrev "Marcin Kulisz" <deb...@kulisz.net>: > > On 2015-06-02 20:14:19, Chris Fordham wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Martey Dodoo < bugs.debian....@marteydodoo.com> > > wrote: > > > Personally, I think that if third-party software like Chef or Puppet are > > installed in the base box (with all of their dependencies), it also makes > > sense to install aptitude so that upgrading packages with Ansible works > > properly. > > I see no sense in installing aptitude to upgrade packages when apt-get is > already there. I just had a quick look into ansible apt module and have to say > it's a bit messy. It's utilising apt-get for dist-upgrade and aptitude for > full-upgrade. Probably this should be pointed out to ansible devs as suboptimal > solution.
Well, isn't aptitude installed by default by Debian? I remember aptitude being recommended before apt-get, at least previously, by Debian. So I don't see any problems with that. > > Thats unfortunate, we need to fix this and make them provisionerless and get > > rid of the 'enhancement' approach. Vagrant plugins and inline provisioning > > is the right way to do it (as demonstrated by Chef Software Inc.). > > I agree. Yes, it's easier to add packages then to remove.
