[EPEL-devel] Re: Ansible in EPEL 9

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 11:24 PM Maxwell G <maxwell(a)gtmx.me&gt; wrote:
>  Hello EPEL users and developers,
>
>
>  RHEL 9.2 was released today,
>  so I have updated ansible in EPEL 9 from 6.3.0 to 7.2.0 to match RHEL
>  9.2's ansible-core bump from 2.13.3 to 2.14.2.
>  Each ansible major version is tied to a specific major version of
>  ansible-core, and we keep them in sync.
>
>  Along with this change, RHEL 9.2 builds ansible-core for the python3.11
>  stack instead of the default python3 (3.9) stack.
>  Therefore, ansible in EPEL now built for python3.11 as well.
>
>  Here is the Bodhi update:
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2023-f51a0ff8a1
>  Please help test and give karma. 
Thank you for your efforts and clear communication!  It is very much
appreciated.

josh

>  Until this update is pushed to stable, you may receive an error like
>  this when running dnf upgrade
>
>  ```
>  Error:
>   Problem: package ansible-6.3.0-2.el9.noarch requires python3.9dist(ansible-core) >=
> 2.13.3, but none of the providers can be installed
>    - cannot install both ansible-core-2.14.2-4.el9.x86_64 and
> ansible-core-2.13.3-2.el9_1.x86_64
>    - cannot install both ansible-core-2.14.2-4.el9.x86_64 and
> ansible-core-2.13.3-1.el9.x86_64
>    - cannot install the best update candidate for package
> ansible-core-2.13.3-2.el9_1.x86_64
>    - cannot install the best update candidate for package ansible-6.3.0-2.el9.noarch
>  (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or
> '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not
> only best candidate packages)
>  ```
>
>  There are a couple potential solutions:
>
>  1. Run
>       $ dnf upgrade --exclude ansible-core
>     to skip ansible-core and upgrade everything else.
>  2. In a couple hours from from now (now is 3:15 UTC), you'll be able to install
>     ansible 7.2.0 from testing with
>       $ dnf upgrade --refresh --enablerepo=epel-testing ansible ansible-core
>     and then run a plain `dnf upgrade` as usual.
>
>
>  --
>  Happy automating,
>
>
>  Maxwell G (@gotmax23)
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