I think you can avoid this altogether. I believe there's an epel-release package in the main yum repo which you can use to add EPEL to your yum sources (may not have the right terminology here).
- name: ADD EPEL release using a yum package to do so yum: name: epel-release state: present Hope this helps, Jon On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 9:58:24 PM UTC+1, Adam Morris wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have a playbook which includes this piece... > > - name: Install the appropriate EPEL package for RHEL/OEL > package: name=" > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-{{ > ansible_distribution_major_version }}.noarch.rpm" state=latest > when: ansible_distribution == "RedHat" or ansible_distribution == > "Oracle" > > When run I get this error message > > TASK [EPEL : Install the appropriate EPEL package for RHEL/OEL] > **************** > fatal: [host]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "No > Package matching ' > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm' > found available, installed or updated", "rc": 0, "results": []} > > If I run it on the target server manually I get > > yum install > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm > Loaded plugins: product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager > epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm | 14 kB > 00:00 > Examining /var/tmp/yum-root-NZVCS_/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm: > epel-release-7-6.noarch > Marking /var/tmp/yum-root-NZVCS_/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm to be > installed > Resolving Dependencies > blahblahblah > > I'm running Ansible 2.0.2.0 > > Any ideas? > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e5b9acbc-de74-4869-be15-376ab2f9074f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.