Ansible – How to Upgrade Snap Packages

The aim is to upgrade snap packages, e.g. n3dr and informado, using Ansible. The following task has been created:

- name: Install various snap packages
  snap:
    name:
      - informado
      - n3dr

Attempts to solve the issue

The following websites were consulted:

• https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/snap_module.html
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/62492
• https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/blob/main/plugins/modules/packaging/os/snap.py

There seems to be no option to upgrade snap package using ansible

A GitHub issue has been created.

Workaround

1. remove the to be updated packages

    user@host:~$ sudo snap remove informado n3dr
    2020-07-15T10:21:18+02:00 INFO Waiting for
    conflicting change in progress...
    informado removed
    n3dr removed
   

2. run ansible again

3. the newest version of the n3dr and informado have been installed

Question

How to upgrade snap packages without removing them first, using ansible?