Unable to install collection from git due to missing version in galaxy.yml

[dmsimard]

SUMMARY

According to the documentation we should be able to install collections from git but for openvswitch.openvswitch, it fails due to a lack of version in the galaxy.yml file.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.10.3

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/ansible-collections/openvswitch.openvswitch

EXPECTED RESULTS

Collection is installed successfully

ACTUAL RESULTS

> ansible-galaxy collection install git+https://github.com/ansible-collections/openvswitch.openvswitch
Starting galaxy collection install process
Process install dependency map
ERROR! The collection galaxy.yml at '/home/dmsimard/.ansible/tmp/ansible-local-13386898nki5xno/tmphz_7siqo/openvswitch.openvswitch/galaxy.yml' is missing the following mandatory keys: version

[pabelanger]

So, I think for the we need to update ansible-galaxy CLI to handle it missing. Or we expose something like

tox -ebuild

to generate a tarball to install from

[NilashishC]

So, I think for the we need to update ansible-galaxy CLI to handle it missing. Or we expose something like

tox -ebuild

to generate a tarball to install from

@pabelanger Agreed. This ideally needs to be fixed in ansible-galaxy. #60 is just a workaround until that happens.