Ansible & Python 3 in EPEL7

[Igor Gnatenko]

Hey folks,

We recently started to use Ansible more and we are using some ansible
collection which is not compatible with Python 2.

Are there any plans to switch Ansible to Python 3 in EPEL7 or are
there any recommendations what to do in such cases as we have?

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 5:47 AM Igor Gnatenko  wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> We recently started to use Ansible more and we are using some ansible
> collection which is not compatible with Python 2.
>
> Are there any plans to switch Ansible to Python 3 in EPEL7 or are
> there any recommendations what to do in such cases as we have?

I suspect both versions would need to be shipped in EPEL7 unless
upstream Ansible just switches to Python 3 for EL7 too.

[Carl George]

The EL7 python3 stack does not have all the same libraries available.
Ansible users have already complained about the lack of libselinux
bindings, but thankfully that should be resolved in 7.8.

https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16389
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1719978
https://git.centos.org/rpms/libselinux/blob/c7-beta/f/SPECS/libselinux.spec#...

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:47 AM Igor Gnatenko  wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> We recently started to use Ansible more and we are using some ansible
> collection which is not compatible with Python 2.
>
> Are there any plans to switch Ansible to Python 3 in EPEL7 or are
> there any recommendations what to do in such cases as we have?
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> -Igor Gnatenko
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[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:19 PM Carl George  wrote:
> The EL7 python3 stack does not have all the same libraries available.
> Ansible users have already complained about the lack of libselinux
> bindings, but thankfully that should be resolved in 7.8.
>
> https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=16389
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1719978
> https://git.centos.org/rpms/libselinux/blob/c7-beta/f/SPECS/libselinux.spec#...

Missing DNF stack Python 3 modules means that the yum module will be broken
in Python 3 too.

--
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[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:46:49AM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> We recently started to use Ansible more and we are using some ansible
> collection which is not compatible with Python 2.
>
> Are there any plans to switch Ansible to Python 3 in EPEL7 or are
> there any recommendations what to do in such cases as we have?

It's pretty possible to start doing python2 and python3 subpackages
(with python2 default). We did this for Fedora for a while when things
were changing.

I'll try and see about getting that working in my spare (ha) time.

If someone else would like to work on it and make a PR, please feel free
to do so.

kevin