ansible retired in epel7

[Kevin Fenzi]

Greetings.

Just a note for anyone looking for ansible in epel7.

It's been retired there because with the release of RHEL 7.4 it's now
int the rhel-extras channel.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...

Accordingly, you can get ansible now from rhel extras channel, or CentOS
extras repo.

You can also get ansible rpms now from
http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/

Note that ansible continues to be available from epel6.

kevin

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
>  Greetings.
>
>  Just a note for anyone looking for ansible in epel7.
>
>  It's been retired there because with the release of RHEL 7.4 it's now
>  int the rhel-extras channel.
>
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
>
>  Accordingly, you can get ansible now from rhel extras channel, or CentOS
>  extras repo.
>
>  You can also get ansible rpms now from
>  http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/
>
>  Note that ansible continues to be available from epel6.
>  
Since Ansible was added as an "unsupported dependency" for the System
Roles feature, it's a bit different from other things in that it's
unlikely to receive updates.

Users of Ansible should probably avoid depending on the Extras version
unless they're okay with no fixes to it... :/


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[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Oct 7, 2017 1:18 PM, "Neal Gompa" <ngompa13(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
>  Greetings.
>
>  Just a note for anyone looking for ansible in epel7.
>
>  It's been retired there because with the release of RHEL 7.4 it's now
>  int the rhel-extras channel.
>
>  https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp
rise_Linux/7/html-single/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html#
technology_previews_red_hat_enterprise_linux_system_roles_powered_by_ansible
>  Accordingly, you can get ansible now from rhel extras channel, or CentOS
>  extras repo.
>
>  You can also get ansible rpms now from
>  http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/
>
>  Note that ansible continues to be available from epel6.
>  
Since Ansible was added as an "unsupported dependency" for the System
Roles feature, it's a bit different from other things in that it's
unlikely to receive updates.

Users of Ansible should probably avoid depending on the Extras version
unless they're okay with no fixes to it... :/

Ansible upstream has added rpm packages for those who might get suck in
that situation.  It won't be exactly like the epel versions and we
[upstream] haven't quite worked out all the things (like having an rpm with
the repo config  files in it) but hopefully it will be useful.

http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/rpm/

(Official releases are packaged in the releases subdir, hopefully the other
subdirs are equally self explanatory)

-toshio

[Kevin Fenzi]

On 10/07/2017 01:14 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  
>  Since Ansible was added as an "unsupported dependency" for the System
>  Roles feature, it's a bit different from other things in that it's
>  unlikely to receive updates. 
Citiation needed?

>  Users of Ansible should probably avoid depending on the Extras
> version
>  unless they're okay with no fixes to it... :/ 
I have talked to the rhel extras version maintainers and they made no
indication that they didn't want to ever update it. In fact, they said
they wanted to try and keep it in sync with the fedora version if at all
possible.

I have no idea if thats changed, but I guess time will tell.

kevin

[Neal Gompa]

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 10/07/2017 01:14 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >
> > Since Ansible was added as an "unsupported dependency" for the System
> > Roles feature, it's a bit different from other things in that it's
> > unlikely to receive updates.
>
>  Citiation needed?
>  
It's mentioned right in the release notes that you linked.

Quote: "Ansible is being included as an unsupported runtime
dependency. (BZ#1313263)"

> > Users of Ansible should probably avoid depending on the Extras
> version
> > unless they're okay with no fixes to it... :/
>
>  I have talked to the rhel extras version maintainers and they made no
>  indication that they didn't want to ever update it. In fact, they said
>  they wanted to try and keep it in sync with the fedora version if at all
>  possible.
>
>  I have no idea if thats changed, but I guess time will tell.
>  
If it is actually going to be updated and kept in sync, then that's
great. But the release notes indicate the opposite will be true.



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[Kevin Fenzi]

On 10/07/2017 01:51 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>  On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt;
> wrote:
> > On 10/07/2017 01:14 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >>
> >> Since Ansible was added as an "unsupported dependency" for the System
> >> Roles feature, it's a bit different from other things in that it's
> >> unlikely to receive updates.
> >
> > Citiation needed?
> >
>  
>  It's mentioned right in the release notes that you linked.
>  
>  Quote: "Ansible is being included as an unsupported runtime
>  dependency. (BZ#1313263)" 
yes but I meant the part about never getting updates. I don't equate
unsupported with any particular update policy. They might update it
faster than anything else, or slower.

Anyhow, feel free to get ansible from whatever source you like.

kevin

[Neal Gompa]

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 10/07/2017 01:51 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com&gt; wrote:
> >> On 10/07/2017 01:14 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Since Ansible was added as an "unsupported dependency" for the
> System
> >>> Roles feature, it's a bit different from other things in that it's
> >>> unlikely to receive updates.
> >>
> >> Citiation needed?
> >>
> >
> > It's mentioned right in the release notes that you linked.
> >
> > Quote: "Ansible is being included as an unsupported runtime
> > dependency. (BZ#1313263)"
>
>  yes but I meant the part about never getting updates. I don't equate
>  unsupported with any particular update policy. They might update it
>  faster than anything else, or slower.
>
>  Anyhow, feel free to get ansible from whatever source you like.
>  
Except EPEL, of course. ;)

Anyway, we'll see how it goes. Fortunately, Ansible offers repositories now. :)

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