skip_broken in dnf module doesnt have any effect

[shiron-babi]

SUMMARY

Trying to install a list of local packages via dnf module gives me conflicts on RHEL 8.2
I tried to add skip_broken flag but the conflicts error are still appear

dnf --disablerepo=* localinstall -y *.rpm --skip-broken
works well

Important notice: server should be without an outbound connection. (disconnected from internet)

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

dnf

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.10.4
  config file = /mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/root/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.6.8 (default, Aug 18 2020, 08:33:21) [GCC 8.3.1 20191121 (Red Hat 8.3.1-5)]

CONFIGURATION

DEFAULT_CALLBACK_WHITELIST(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['timer', 'profile_tasks']
DEFAULT_HASH_BEHAVIOUR(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = merge
DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['/mnt/ansible/inventory']
DEFAULT_LOAD_CALLBACK_PLUGINS(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = True
DEFAULT_LOG_PATH(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = /mnt/ansible/ansible.log
DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ec2-user
DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = debug
DEFAULT_VERBOSITY(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = 0
HOST_KEY_CHECKING(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False
INVENTORY_ENABLED(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = ['host_list', 'virtualbox', 'constructed', 'script', 'auto', 'yaml', 'ini', 'toml']
RETRY_FILES_ENABLED(/mnt/ansible/ansible.cfg) = False

OS / ENVIRONMENT

RHEL 8.2 running on Azure

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. on RHEL 8.3 - download nginx (for example) rpms and dependencies to a folder (dnf --downloadonly)
2. Copy all to RHEL 8.2
3. try to install these local rpms via dnf module

- name: INSTALL DEPENDENCIES ROLE | NGINX | INSTALL | Finding Nginx RPM files
  find:
    paths: "{{ local_repo_nginx_dir_path }}"
    patterns: "*.rpm"
  register: rpm_result

- set_fact:
    rpm_list: "{{ rpm_result.files | map(attribute='path') | list}}"

- name: INSTALL DEPENDENCIES ROLE | NGINX | INSTALL | Install all Nginx RPMs dependencies
  dnf:
    name: "{{ rpm_list }}"
    state: present
    disablerepo: "*"
    skip_broken: yes

EXPECTED RESULTS

nginx installation doesn't fail and playbook continue

ACTUAL RESULTS

playbook fails on dnf module

MSG:

Depsolve Error occured:
 Problem 1: package crypto-policies-20200713-1.git51d1222.el8.noarch conflicts with openssh < 8.0p1-5 provided by openssh-8.0p1-4.el8_1.x86_64
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package openssh-8.0p1-4.el8_1.x86_64
 Problem 2: cannot install both util-linux-2.32.1-24.el8.x86_64 and util-linux-2.32.1-22.el8.x86_64
  - package util-linux-user-2.32.1-22.el8.x86_64 requires util-linux = 2.32.1-22.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - problem with installed package util-linux-user-2.32.1-22.el8.x86_64

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[relrod]

Verified. This is because even though we set strict (aka skip_broken) in the dnf base config, we don't actually pass it as strict (kwarg) when we call base.install(): https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/modules/dnf.py#L743

There are a few other places as well. I'm working on a patch and was writing a bunch of test cases, but it was on my desktop and my power just went out, so my work got stalled 😆 -- I'll have a patch up soonish.