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Update Debian apt cache when packages are not installed #167

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widhalmt opened this issue May 22, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #179
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Update Debian apt cache when packages are not installed #167

widhalmt opened this issue May 22, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #179
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I'm not as used to Debian as I'm used to RedHat, so take this with a grain of salt: Should we update apt cache before installing the packages? There are similar tasks in out Molecule checks but not in the actual roles.

In https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-mysql @geerlingguy has a task that checks whether the package is already installed. And if not, then her refreshes the apt cache. Should speed up the process significantly.
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We should update the cache if we want to install an actual package or update an existed one. Debian does not know about the new available packages without cache update. We can also integrate the cache update in the installation task.

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Yes. How about opening an issue or even a project/milestone for updating? And for now we check whether it's installed and if not, we run the cache update? Would that be ok? We need to keep the update in the Molecule configuration because that's for a different set of packages.

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ok, I agree with you

@widhalmt widhalmt self-assigned this Jun 15, 2023
widhalmt added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 15, 2023
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Refresh apt cache if package is not yet installed
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I know, checking for the existence of the configuration directory is not
the best way. But it's way faster than quering the package manager every
time.

fixes #167
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Refresh apt cache before installing packages (#179)
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Run an apt refresh at the start of each role. We can use grace time so
we don't neet to refresh it every time and safe some time.

fixes #167
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