pkgng reports insufficient privilege as ok/unchanged, inconsistent with builtin.apt, builtin.yum

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Summary

With a barebones "update all installed packages" playbook, a server that requires sudo/root privileges to do so, and intentionally not providing said credentials, pkng reports green/ok/unchanged although it fails to do the task. This is inconsistent with builtin.apt and builtin.yum modules that correctly report red/failed with a result msg of "You need to be root" and "Are you root?" respectively.

Issue Type

Bug Report

Component Name

pkgng

Ansible Version

$ ansible --version

ansible [core 2.13.4]
  config file = None
  configured module search path = ['/Users/alexis/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/6.4.0/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /Users/alexis/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.10.7 (main, Sep 15 2022, 01:51:29) [Clang 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.102)]
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True

Community.general Version

$ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general

# /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/6.4.0/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible_collections
Collection        Version
----------------- -------
community.general 5.6.0  

Configuration

$ ansible-config dump --only-changed

(empty)

OS / Environment

Control node: macOS Monterey 12.6
Managed (target) node: FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE amd64

Steps to Reproduce

My playbook:

---
- name: ensures server is up to date
  hosts: freebsd-server

  tasks:
  - name: upgrade all packages
    pkgng:
      name: '*'
      state: latest

Command to run playbook:

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory.ini freebsd-update.yml -vvv

Expected Results

pkgng should return red/failed when it attempts to do a task it has insufficient privileges for to be consistent with builtin.apt and builtin.yum.

As an example, here's the -vvv update from a different server running apt:

fatal: [debian]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "allow_change_held_packages": false,
            "allow_downgrade": false,
            "allow_unauthenticated": false,
            "autoclean": false,
            "autoremove": false,
            "cache_valid_time": 0,
            "clean": false,
            "deb": null,
            "default_release": null,
            "dpkg_options": "force-confdef,force-confold",
            "fail_on_autoremove": false,
            "force": false,
            "force_apt_get": false,
            "install_recommends": null,
            "lock_timeout": 60,
            "name": "*",
            "only_upgrade": false,
            "package": [
                "*"
            ],
            "policy_rc_d": null,
            "purge": false,
            "state": "latest",
            "update_cache": null,
            "update_cache_retries": 5,
            "update_cache_retry_max_delay": 12,
            "upgrade": null
        }
    },
    "msg": "'/usr/bin/apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs ' failed: E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)\nE: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?\n",
    "rc": 100,
    "stdout": "",
    "stdout_lines": []
}

Actual Results

The verbose result as printed in the terminal:

ok: [freebsd-server] => {
    "changed": false,
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "annotation": null,
            "autoremove": false,
            "cached": false,
            "chroot": null,
            "ignore_osver": false,
            "jail": null,
            "name": [
                "*"
            ],
            "pkgsite": null,
            "rootdir": null,
            "state": "latest"
        }
    },
    "msg": "no packages need upgrades",
    "stderr": "pkg: Insufficient privilege to upgrade packages\n",
    "stderr_lines": [
        "pkg: Insufficient privilege to upgrade packages"
    ],
    "stdout": "",
    "stdout_lines": []
}

Result of pkg update if I run it without privileges directly on the target server:

user@freebsd-server:~ $ pkg update
pkg: Insufficient privileges to update the repository catalogue.

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[felixfontein]

It looks to me that the module isn't checking return codes most of the time, when it really should.