Ansible-test conflict with RHEL8.6 and derivates

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It seems that RHEL 8.6 now contains ansible in AppStream. It provides version 2.12.2. The foreman installation docs for version 3.2 enable ansible 2.9 repositories.

This leads to a conflict when upgrading to 8.6, e.g. on AlmaLinux

 Problem: package ansible-test-2.12.2-3.1.el8.x86_64 requires ansible-core = 2.12.2-3.1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package ansible-core-2.12.2-3.1.el8.x86_64 conflicts with ansible < 2.10.0 provided by ansible-2.9.27-1.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package ansible-test-2.9.27-1.el8.noarch
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package ansible-2.9.27-1.el8.noarch

The ansible 2.9 repository installed packages ansible and ansible-test.

Now there is ansible-core and ansible-test 2.12.2 available in appstream.

The appstream ansible-core package doesn’t upgrade the ansible package from the 2.9 repository.

As both repositories have ansible-test in different versions it breaks…

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That’s correct. Please follow the documentation of your distribution (like Using Ansible in RHEL 8.6 and later - Red Hat Customer Portal) how to upgrade from Ansible 2.9 to 2.12.

TL;DR: dnf install ansible-core ansible-test --allowerasing should do it.

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Excellent.

# dnf install ansible-core ansible-test --allowerasing

did the trick. I guess that means docs need to be updated. The install docs should not install centos-release-ansible-29 and the upgrade docs should mention this issues and the solution…

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Well, on fresh installs the ansible-29 repo doesn’t hurt (and that way the docs also work for 8.5).

As for upgrades… I’d think OS upgrades should be documented by the OS vendor? :wink:

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Hit the same issue on AlmaLinux 8.5. Performed this on my Foreman server

[root@foreman ~]# dnf update ansible-test --allowerasing
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:25 ago on Fri 13 May 2022 12:36:58 PM UTC.
Dependencies resolved.
=====================================================================================================================
 Package                   Architecture Version                                       Repository                Size
=====================================================================================================================
Upgrading:
 ansible-test              x86_64       2.12.2-3.1.el8                                appstream                663 k
Installing dependencies:
 ansible-core              x86_64       2.12.2-3.1.el8                                appstream                2.4 M
 emacs-filesystem          noarch       1:26.1-7.el8                                  baseos                    69 k
 git                       x86_64       2.31.1-2.el8                                  appstream                160 k
 git-core                  x86_64       2.31.1-2.el8                                  appstream                4.7 M
 git-core-doc              noarch       2.31.1-2.el8                                  appstream                2.6 M
 perl-Error                noarch       1:0.17025-2.el8                               appstream                 46 k
 perl-Git                  noarch       2.31.1-2.el8                                  appstream                 77 k
 perl-TermReadKey          x86_64       2.37-7.el8                                    appstream                 40 k
 python38-psutil           x86_64       5.6.4-4.module_el8.6.0+2778+cd494b30          appstream                406 k
 python38-resolvelib       noarch       0.5.4-5.el8                                   appstream                 29 k
Removing dependent packages:
 ansible                   noarch       2.9.27-1.el8                                  @centos-ansible-29        96 M

Transaction Summary
=====================================================================================================================
Install  10 Packages
Upgrade   1 Package
Remove    1 Package

Total download size: 11 M

Just used the update command but same result. :slight_smile: