The implementation is fairly simple, we force the rc= parameter to not be zero so that the check in _executor/task_result.py_ correctly determines that it failed. Without this change Ansible would report the task to be ok (despite failed=True and msg=Some_error_message) although Ansible stops and the summary output reports a failed task.
This fixes#4214, #4384 and also relates to ansible/ansible#12070, ansible/ansible#16006, ansible/ansible##16597, ansible/ansible#17208 and ansible/ansible#17252
Rather than just checking whether a package with the right
name is installed, use `local_nvra` to check whether the
version/release/arch differs too.
Remove `local_name` as it is a shortcut too far.
Fixes#3807Fixes#4529
* This keeps us from hitting bugs in repoquery/yum plugins in certain
instances (#2559).
* The previous is also a small performance boost
* Also in is_installed(), when using the yum API, return if we detect
a package name has been installed. We don't need to also check
virtual provides in that case. This is another small performance
boost.
* Sort the list of packages returned by the list parameter.
The yum module allows the 'name' parameter to be given as 'pkg', in
a similar way to some of the other package managers. This change
documents this alias.
The module's 'state' parameter has two other aliases, in line with
the 'apt' action; the 'state' parameter can take 'installed' as an
alias for 'present', and 'removed' as an alias for 'absent'. These
aliases are documented.
* Only install yum-utils if needed (b/c we're going to use repoquery)
* Add a warning message explaining that why slower repoquery was used
rather than yum API.
The message there is that Yum API prints an error message if the
rhn-plugin is in use and no rhn-certificate is available. So instead of
using repoquery in preference always here we use repoquery in preference
if the rhn-plugin is enabled.
The ordering of disabling/enabling yum repositories matters, and
the yum module was mixing and matching the order. Specifically,
when yum-utils isn't installed, the codepath which uses the yum
python module was incorrectly ordering enabling and disabling.
The preferred order is to disable repositories and then enable them
to prevent clobbering. This was previously discussed in
ansible/ansible#5255 and incompletely addressed in 0cca4a3.
