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Bug
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Resolution: Done-Errata
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Normal
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rhel-9.6
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rhel-system-roles-1.100.1-1.1.el10
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Yes
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Low
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TestCaseProvided
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rhel-system-roles
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0
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Dev ack
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False
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False
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No
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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None
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Pass
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Automated
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Release Note Not Required
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Unspecified
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Unspecified
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Unspecified
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All
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None
The current version of rhel-system-roles as published in the appstream repository (1.95.7-0.1.el9_6) contains ansible collections that require ansible-core version 2.15 or higher, but the highest version of ansible-core published in the same appstream repo is 2.14.18-1.el9
This is in contradiction to the published articles detailing the scope of support for the ansible-core package from appstream on Enterprise Linux 9:
- https://access.redhat.com/articles/6325611
- https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/updates-using-ansible-core-in-rhel
- https://access.redhat.com/articles/3050101
This results in ansible plays that include any of the roles from the rhel-system-roles package to emit an error like:
Collection redhat.rhel_system_roles does not support Ansible version 2.14.18
This issue can be easily reproduced by installing a minimal RHEL 9.6 server with the appstream repo enabled and installing the the most recent published versions of the `rhel-system-roles` and the `ansible-core` packages followed by executing an ansible playbook that includes any of the packaged roles, see below example:
1. Install packages with appstream and baseos repos enabled:
[root@localhost ~]# yum repolist Updating Subscription Management repositories. repo id repo name rhel-9-for-aarch64-appstream-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for ARM 64 - AppStream (RPMs) rhel-9-for-aarch64-baseos-rpms Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for ARM 64 - BaseOS (RPMs) [root@localhost ~]# yum install rhel-system-roles Updating Subscription Management repositories. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for ARM 64 - BaseOS (RPMs) 33 MB/s | 69 MB 00:02 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for ARM 64 - AppStream (RPMs) 34 MB/s | 62 MB 00:01 Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:04 ago on Wed 28 May 2025 01:09:29 PM PDT. Dependencies resolved. ============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Architecture Version Repository Size ============================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: rhel-system-roles noarch 1.95.7-0.1.el9_6 rhel-9-for-aarch64-appstream-rpms 4.2 M Installing dependencies: ansible-core aarch64 1:2.14.18-1.el9 rhel-9-for-aarch64-appstream-rpms 2.6 M <snip> Installed products updated.Installed: ansible-core-1:2.14.18-1.el9.aarch64 git-core-2.47.1-2.el9_6.aarch64 python3-cffi-1.14.5-5.el9.aarch64 python3-cryptography-36.0.1-4.el9.aarch64 python3-packaging-20.9-5.el9.noarch python3-ply-3.11-14.el9.noarch python3-pycparser-2.20-6.el9.noarch python3-pyparsing-2.4.7-9.el9.noarch python3-resolvelib-0.5.4-5.el9.noarch rhel-system-roles-1.95.7-0.1.el9_6.noarch sshpass-1.09-4.el9.aarch64 Complete!
2. Create a simple playbook to execute an arbitrary role
[root@localhost ~]# cat playbook.yaml
---
- hosts: localhost
become: true
roles:
- redhat.rhel_system_roles.sshd
3. Execute playbook and observe that the logged error.
[root@localhost ~]# ansible-playbook -c local -i localhost, ./playbook.yaml [WARNING]: Collection redhat.rhel_system_roles does not support Ansible version 2.14.18 PLAY [localhost] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* TASK [Gathering Facts] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* ok: [localhost] < snip >
4. Check rpm dependencies
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q --requires rhel-system-roles (ansible-core >= 2.11.0 or ansible >= 2.9.0) /bin/bash /bin/sh /usr/bin/env /usr/bin/python rpmlib(BuiltinLuaScripts) <= 4.2.2-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadIsZstd) <= 5.4.18-1 rpmlib(RichDependencies) <= 4.12.0-1 [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q --provides ansible-core ansible-core = 1:2.14.18-1.el9 ansible-core(aarch-64) = 1:2.14.18-1.el9 bundled(python-backports-ssl_match_hostname) = 3.7.0.1 bundled(python-distro) = 1.6.0 bundled(python-jinja2) = 3.1.2 bundled(python-markupsafe) = 2.1.2 bundled(python-selectors2) = 1.1.1 bundled(python-six) = 1.16.0 config(ansible-core) = 1:2.14.18-1.el9 python3.9dist(ansible-core) = 2.14.18 python3dist(ansible-core) = 2.14.18
5. Demonstrate that the ansible collection runtime metadata requires a version different than is specified by the rpm metadata and is unsatisfiable with any package available in the appstream or baseos repos:
[root@localhost ~]# cat /usr/share/ansible/collections/ansible_collections/redhat/rhel_system_roles/meta/runtime.yml --- requires_ansible: ">=2.15.0" [root@localhost ~]# yum whatprovides 'ansible-core >= 1:2.15.0' Updating Subscription Management repositories. Last metadata expiration check: 0:21:16 ago on Wed 28 May 2025 01:17:24 PM PDT. Error: No matches found. If searching for a file, try specifying the full path or using a wildcard prefix ("*/") at the beginning.
- links to
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RHEA-2025:148879
rhel-system-roles bug fix and enhancement update
