autoclean and autoremove fail when they conffiles change.

[rob42]

When conffiles are not default then these commands cause

"Configuration file '/etc/sudoers'",
 " ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.",
 " ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.",
 "   What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:",
 "    Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version",
 "    N or O  : keep your currently-installed version",
 "      D     : show the differences between the versions",
 "      Z     : start a shell to examine the situation",
 " The default action is to keep your current version.",
 "*** sudoers (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing package sudo (--configure):",
 " end of file on stdin at conffile prompt",

and subsequently fail.

Shell command should change from
apt-get -y autoremove
to apt-get -y -o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef" -o "Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold" autoremove, same for autoclean. This makes the action completely avoid the confirmation menu.

[rob42]

oops
apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" autoremove

[ahelal]

@rob42 This repo is not maintained. any more. if you want you can open a new issue https://github.com/AutomationWithAnsible/ansible-apt