what is the best workaround for ansible bug #68361 ?

[RobVerduijn]

Hello,

After trying to install freeipa server with the ansible-freeipa collection for a couple days I found out I was being bitten by this bug:
ansible/ansible#68361

You obviously already know this one and you can't help it because it is an ansible bug,
Since it seems that this one is going to take a while before it is applied in a stable release (or backported to 2.9)
what would you recommend as a workaround for this one ?
(besides manually applying the patch mentioned in the post)

Rob

[t-woerner]

Ansible 2.10 should provide a fix for this issue. I have not been able to test this though.

[t-woerner]

A possible workaround for now is to install ipa-server packages also on the controller. Then ansible is able to load the module_utils plugins on the controller to find out what needs to be transferred to the node. The version of ipa-server packages should not matter as long as it is a supported IPA version.

[t-woerner]

Only the collection is affected by this. You can use the RPM that is part of RHEL-8 and Fedora. It is installing the roles and plugins into the default ansible locations for roles and plugins. You can also use the roles and plugins from the ansible-freeipa releases this way. Please have a look at https://github.com/freeipa/ansible-freeipa#how-to-use-ansible-freeipa and ignore the galaxy section there.

[RobVerduijn]

Thanx,

I'll definitely consider your suggestions and which one to use.
Let's hope ansible 2.10 doesn't mis it's roadmap release date by much, which is next month
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/ROADMAP_2_10.html

Rob

[RobVerduijn]

This bug is back again

Rob

[rjeffman]

@RobVerduijn, the bug never gone away. It is an Ansible 2.9 issue with collections.