Recommend ansible-core 2.15.1 [and interim workaround to start Asterisk, so FreePBX can install]

[holta]

ANNC:

https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-announce/c/Ga3ULTgnEqM

Changelog:

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.15.1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.15.rst#v2-15-1

Likely good enough — even if installing FreePBX (in the face of Ansible's command/shell failures) isn't quite yet fully solved upstream?

• PR './start_asterisk start' works at CLI—but ansible 2.15.0 freezes trying to wrap up running the same command—unless it's already been run manually! [Ugly Hack Works: run it as an async background task & wait 30 sec] [WAS: Break apart FreePBX install into 2 distinct Ansible steps] [WAS: Experimentally eliminate freepbx.yml blocking on presence of /var/www/html/freepbx] #3588

Related:

• PR freepbx-16.0-latest.tgz STALE so git clone to /opt/iiab/freepbx #3229
• PR EXPERIMENTAL: 'asterisk_rpi_patch: True' option for Raspberry Pi + preliminary path to FreePBX on PHP 8 #3523
• PR ansible-core 2.14.5 & beefed up for latest 32-bit ARM (armhf) cryptography / piwheels / rust problems #3550
• PR Recommend ansible-core 2.15.0 #3577
• PR TEMPORARILY revert ansible-core 2.15.0 to 2.14.6 til the dust settles — e.g. for FreePBX #3588 #3590

[holta]

This PR is nearly impossible to test, as Asterisk/FreePBX's Digium's server (https://svn.digium.com) is currently offline for several hours now:

TASK [pbx : Asterisk - Download mp3 decoder library into source tree - requires 'subversion' installed just above] **************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["./contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh"], "delta": "0:02:10.564257", "end": "2023-06-20 20:55:11.060540", "msg": "non-zero return code", "rc": 1, "start": "2023-06-20 20:53:00.496283", "stderr": "svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://svn.digium.com/svn/thirdparty/mp3/trunk'\nsvn: E000110: Error running context: Connection timed out", "stderr_lines": ["svn: E170013: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'https://svn.digium.com/svn/thirdparty/mp3/trunk'", "svn: E000110: Error running context: Connection timed out"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

Given ansible-core 2.15.1 continues to have problems installing FreePBX even with nohup, separating these 2 needed commands (from 1 Ansible stanza to 2) may be worth trying next:

# 2023-05-21: Asterisk is normally OFF at this point (but that doesn't matter, either way!)
- name: FreePBX - Spawn 'nohup ./start_asterisk start' in {{ freepbx_src_dir }}
  command: nohup ./start_asterisk start    # 2023-06-20: Interim use of 'nohup' until ansible 2.15.x solves regression ansible/ansible#80863
  args:
    chdir: "{{ freepbx_src_dir }}"

- name: FreePBX - Install FreePBX to {{ freepbx_install_dir }} - FAST W/ GITHUB (OR freepbx-16.0-latest.tgz CAN TAKE 3-12 MIN OR LONGER!)
  command: ./install -n --webroot {{ freepbx_install_dir }} --dbuser {{ asterisk_db_user }} --dbpass {{ asterisk_db_password }}
  args:
    chdir: "{{ freepbx_src_dir }}"
    #creates: "{{ freepbx_install_dir }}"    # /var/www/html/freepbx

[holta]

This PR is nearly impossible to test, as Asterisk/FreePBX's Digium's server (https://svn.digium.com) is currently offline

Another interim hack, allowing testing to proceed, while their above subversion (svn) remains offline, preventing MP3 support:

root@deb11d:/opt/iiab/iiab# git diff
diff --git a/roles/pbx/tasks/asterisk.yml b/roles/pbx/tasks/asterisk.yml
index bc763819..45efefa6 100644
--- a/roles/pbx/tasks/asterisk.yml
+++ b/roles/pbx/tasks/asterisk.yml
@@ -65,11 +65,11 @@
   args:
     chdir: "{{ asterisk_src_dir }}"

-- name: Asterisk - Download mp3 decoder library into source tree - requires 'subversion' installed just above
-  command: ./contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
-  args:
-    chdir: "{{ asterisk_src_dir }}"
-    creates: addons/mp3/mpg123.h
+# - name: Asterisk - Download mp3 decoder library into source tree - requires 'subversion' installed just above
+#   command: ./contrib/scripts/get_mp3_source.sh
+#   args:
+#     chdir: "{{ asterisk_src_dir }}"
+#     creates: addons/mp3/mpg123.h

 - name: Asterisk - Run './configure --with-pjproject-bundled --with-jansson-bundled'
   command: ./configure --with-pjproject-bundled --with-jansson-bundled
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@
     creates: menuselect.makeopts

 - name: Asterisk - Do a bit of menuselect configuration
-  command: menuselect/menuselect --enable app_macro --enable format_mp3 menuselect.makeopts
+  command: menuselect/menuselect --enable app_macro menuselect.makeopts
+  #command: menuselect/menuselect --enable app_macro --enable format_mp3 menuselect.makeopts
   # 2021-08-06: Let's standardize (ABOVE) if 6 others (BELOW) aren't needed?
   # command: >
   #   menuselect/menuselect --enable app_macro --enable format_mp3

[holta]

http://box/freepbx tested successfully on a Debian 11 VM's, verifying this PR works with both ansible-core 2.15.0 and 2.15.1

(Since we cannot know when-or-if ansible-core 2.15.x will fix their regression, in the coming year or so?)

[holta]

This PR is nearly impossible to test, as Asterisk/FreePBX's Digium's server (https://svn.digium.com) is currently offline

FYI http://svn.digium.com/svn/thirdparty/mp3/trunk/ is now back online ~16h later — allowing regular Asterisk/FreePBX installs to proceed (on Debian 11 and RasPiOS 11 anyway, given their very stale EOL'd PHP 7.4 requirement!)