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Diffstat (limited to 'packaging/os/apt.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | packaging/os/apt.py | 29 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/os/apt.py b/packaging/os/apt.py index 3983b6bd..be8e1016 100644 --- a/packaging/os/apt.py +++ b/packaging/os/apt.py @@ -755,6 +755,31 @@ def get_updated_cache_time(): return mtimestamp, updated_cache_time +# https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/2951 +def get_cache(module): + '''Attempt to get the cache object and update till it works''' + cache = None + try: + cache = apt.Cache() + except SystemError: + e = get_exception() + if '/var/lib/apt/lists/' in str(e).lower(): + # update cache until files are fixed or retries exceeded + retries = 0 + while retries < 2: + (rc, so, se) = module.run_command(['apt-get', 'update', '-q']) + retries += 1 + if rc == 0: + break + if rc != 0: + module.fail_json(msg='Updating the cache to correct corrupt package lists failed:\n%s\n%s' % (str(e), str(so) + str(se))) + # try again + cache = apt.Cache() + else: + module.fail_json(msg=str(e)) + return cache + + def main(): module = AnsibleModule( argument_spec = dict( @@ -821,8 +846,10 @@ def main(): if p['state'] == 'removed': p['state'] = 'absent' + # Get the cache object + cache = get_cache(module) + try: - cache = apt.Cache() if p['default_release']: try: apt_pkg.config['APT::Default-Release'] = p['default_release'] |