* 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.
commit logs it looks like we weren't previously doing that because of
commit 14479e6adc
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.
- Replaced some unsafe practice with default parameters. However looking at the code this does not seem to matter much as the calling functions always seem to supply these parameters anyway.
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.
There is no call to yum_base using 'cachedir' argument, so
while it work fine from a cursory look, that's useless code,
and so should be removed to clarify the code.
Using the rpm module prevent a uneeded fork, and permit
to skip the signature checking which slow down a bit the
operation, and which would be done by yum on installation
anyway.
Yum does not always update to latest package version unless metadata cache has expired. By runing yum makecache, we ensure the metadata cache has been updated.
Signed-off-by: René Moser <mail@renemoser.net>
