ansible-builder fails because requirements.txt is missing for ibm.ibm_zos_cics collection

[ansiblejunky]

while using ansible-builder build command to build a Execution Environment for ibm_zos_cics collection, the following error occurs:

#17 [builder 4/5] RUN ansible-builder introspect --sanitize --user-pip=requirements.txt --write-bindep=/tmp/src/bindep.txt --write-pip=/tmp/src/requirements.txt
#17 sha256:be90875e3d1275789fbd93acd07d394ea933c266f98c37c278030d82bf999900
#17 0.644 Expected requirements file not present at: /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ibm/ibm_zos_cics/requirements.txt
#17 0.644 FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/ibm/ibm_zos_cics/requirements.txt'
#17 ERROR: executor failed running [/bin/sh -c ansible-builder introspect --sanitize --user-pip=requirements.txt --write-bindep=/tmp/src/bindep.txt --write-pip=/tmp/src/requirements.txt]: exit code: 1

#7 [stage-2 3/7] RUN ansible-galaxy collection install ibm.ibm_zos_cics
#7 sha256:251f4f3cb1489fa0a66c577c2d0726a6abc857c3d396a8ad6dd56042a03b75d2
#7 CANCELED

requirements.yml file has the latest version of ibm_zos_cics collection:

---
collections:
  - name: ibm.ibm_zos_cics
    version: 1.0.4

The collection:
https://github.com/ansible-collections/ibm_zos_cics

Not sure if this is an issue with ansible-builder or the collection itself, but posting this bug here too.
Original bug on collection is here

ansible-builder version 1.2.0

[Akasurde]

@ansiblejunky Thanks for reporting this. Could you please provide EE definition file used for building this EE? Thanks.

[Akasurde]

@ansiblejunky ibm.ibm_zos_cics collection 1.0.4 is built without requirements.txt (this line is excluding it while ansible-galaxy collection build command). This is not a builder issue. Let me know if you feel the same.

Thanks,

[ansiblejunky]

When I git clone the collection locally, I see the requirements.txt in the root folder.
However, when I use ansible-galaxy collection install that file doesn't exist locally in the installed location. In fact, the following files do not exist anymore:

• requirements.txt
• bindep.txt
• galaxy.yml

The meta folder exists.

This issue is happening for both ibm collections (core, cics).

[sivel]

That is a result of the collection explicitly stating that the artifact that they publish to galaxy should not contain the requirements.txt. The collection will need to be updated, and the build_ignores removed. Even if you state you want to install the collection from git, the process is to build the artifact first, then install, which will still strip the necessary files.

[sivel]

Going to close this, since it's not an issue with ansible-builder.