Some versions of roles are not installable with ansible-galaxy

[sduthil]

Bug Report

SUMMARY

For about a week now, it's been impossible to install some versions of the role cloudalchemy.prometheus from the public instance of Ansible Galaxy, especially the latest version 4.0.0.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

ansible-galaxy install cloudalchemy.prometheus

EXPECTED RESULTS

ansible-galaxy installs the latest version 4.0.0

cloudalchemy.prometheus (4.0.0) was installed successfully

ACTUAL RESULTS

ansible-galaxy installs an older version 2.16.2

cloudalchemy.prometheus (2.16.2) was installed successfully

WORKAROUND

Use this in a requirements file:

- role: cloudalchemy.prometheus
  scm: git
  version: 4.0.0
  src: https://github.com/cloudalchemy/ansible-prometheus

NOTES

• The issue has been raised by multiple people:
  • v4.0.0 seems to have disappeared from galaxy cloudalchemy/ansible-prometheus#387
• I have dumped the 3 pages of role versions received by ansible-galaxy in this file. We can see that the third page of versions has the correct length, but the versions are wrong and seemingly random, without order, making 2.16.2 the latest version.
• I can reproduce the 3rd page issue with curl https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles/22403/versions/\?page\=3\&page_size\=50 | jq '.results[].version'

[sduthil]

I've encountered the same problem with the role brianshumate.consul, installing version 2.5.0 instead of the latest 2.5.4:

Steps to reproduce

ansible-galaxy install brianshumate.consul

Expected results

- downloading role from https://github.com/brianshumate/ansible-consul/archive/v2.5.4.tar.gz

Actual results

Starting galaxy role install process
- downloading role 'consul', owned by brianshumate
- downloading role from https://github.com/brianshumate/ansible-consul/archive/v2.5.0.tar.gz

Notes

• I know this role is deprecated and should be replaced with ansible-community/ansible-consul, but that is not relevant to the current issue.

[sduthil]

This issue seems to have the same root cause: #2912

[xanmanning]

Same issue with xanmanning.k3s - At time of writing the latest release is v3.3.0 however v2.10.6 is being pulled.

(ansible) ➜  k3s-at-home git:(main) ✗ ansible-galaxy install xanmanning.k3s
Starting galaxy role install process
- downloading role 'k3s', owned by xanmanning
- downloading role from https://github.com/PyratLabs/ansible-role-k3s/archive/v2.10.6.tar.gz
- extracting xanmanning.k3s to ./roles/xanmanning.k3s
- xanmanning.k3s (v2.10.6) was installed successfully

Run with -vvvv

(ansible) ➜  k3s-at-home git:(main) ✗ ansible-galaxy install -f -vvvv xanmanning.k3s
ansible-galaxy [core 2.13.3]
  ...
  python version = 3.8.10 (default, Jun 22 2022, 20:18:18) [GCC 9.4.0]
  jinja version = 3.1.2
  libyaml = True
 ...
Initial connection to galaxy_server: https://galaxy.ansible.com
 ...
Calling Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/
Found API version 'v1, v2' with Galaxy server default (https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/)
Starting galaxy role install process
Processing role xanmanning.k3s 
- changing role xanmanning.k3s from v2.10.6 to unspecified
- downloading role 'k3s', owned by xanmanning
Calling Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles/?owner__username=xanmanning&name=k3s
Calling Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles/44229/versions/?page_size=50
Calling Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles/44229/versions/?page=2&page_size=50
Calling Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles/44229/versions/?page=3&page_size=50
- downloading role from https://github.com/PyratLabs/ansible-role-k3s/archive/v2.10.6.tar.gz
- extracting xanmanning.k3s to ./roles/xanmanning.k3s
- xanmanning.k3s (v2.10.6) was installed successfully

3rd page issue?

(ansible) ➜  k3s-at-home git:(main) ✗ curl -s https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/v1/roles/44229/versions/\?page\=3\&page_size\=50 | jq '.results[].version'          
"1.6.3"
"1.4.1"
"0.3.0"
"1.7.0"
"1.19.0"
"1.0.6"
"0.1.7"
"2.1.0"
"2.4.1"
"1.5.1"
"2.10.6"
"1.17.2"
"2.8.5"
"1.2.2"
"0.2.6"
"1.2.0"
"1.2.1"
"1.11.1"
"1.5.2"
"1.0.0"
"2.1.1"
"2.9.0"
"2.0.1"