On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 10:02:38AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> it could have made good sense, and still would, for the "ansible"
> package to be what is now being colloquially referred to as
> "ansible-core", but for which the published upstream git repo is
> still
>
https://github.com/ansible/ansible, and which is and will remain
> accessible as a github release tarball with the old numbering. The
>
pypi.org published "ansible-core" is a republication of that repo
> with
> a new name duck-taped on it. Fragmenting out the bulky and
> potentially
> dynamic set of tools that are now in the "galaxy collections" suite
> makes some sense, but the result is that to get any of the core
> modules like "ansible.posix" we wind up including 573 Megabytes of
> unneeded and unwelcome debris in
> /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible_collections. Very few of us
> need more than 10% of the list
If you don't need more, don't install 'ansible'. Just install
ansible-core and use galaxy or seperate packaged collections to install
just what you need.
> There is no specific source repository for the "ansible_collections"
> tarball, as best I can tell. The list of modules selected from the
> galaxy collection is very large, but incomplete and I've not seen any
> criteria for what goes in that tarball and what does not. Have you
> seen any?
Yes, but I can't seem to find it now. ;(
Basically it was agreeing to use symantic versioning and agreeing to
release on the same schedule as the rest, etc. I don't know if there's
further requirements now. I'll find that doc and post it, but kinda
weekending now. ;)
...snip...
kevin
Here[1] is a link to the rules that collections must follow in order to
be included in the `ansible` bundle. Here[2] is a link to the build
data repository for the `ansible` package. This includes which versions
of the collections exist in each version of the `ansible` package, as
well as which versions of `ansible-core` each `ansible` package depends
on. The Ansible team uses antsibull[3] to compile these releases.
Thanks,
Maxwell
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