Possible Misunderstanding

Hi!

Thanks very much for your submission to Ansible. It sincerely means a lot to us.

We believe the ticket you have filed is being somewhat misunderstood, as one thing works a little differently than stated.

• As the error message states, you cannot use async and with_ loops on the same task.

In the future, this might be a topic more well suited for the user list, which you can also post here if you'd like some more help with the above.

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ansible-project

Thank you once again for this and your interest in Ansible!

As a side note to this -- a few package related modules (yum and apt) have a special optimization pass inside of ansible so that with_* for package names gets turned into a comma separated string of packages that is passed to the module. This is probably why yum works and dnf doesn't. I'll add dnf to that optimization pass now.

As a workaround you can use a comma separated string here instead of with_items like either of these two examples:

- name: 'DNF - Install python bindings for SE Linux'   
  dnf: name="libselinux-python,libsemanage-python" state=present   
  async: 1000   
  poll: 0   
  register: dnf_se_sleeper  

[...]
vars:
  packagelist:
    - libselinux-python
    - libsemanage-python
[...]
- name: 'DNF - Install python bindings for SE Linux'   
  dnf: name="{{ packagelist | join(',') }}" state=present   
  async: 1000   
  poll: 0   
  register: dnf_se_sleeper  

Thanks abadger!

And added to the stable-1.9 branch as well as devel so that it will go out in the next release: 4a5a8ed

Thanks abadger! Great work!