On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 12:49 PM David Moreau Simard <dmsim...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > We're happy to announce that the first beta release of Ansible 6.0 is > now available for testing ! > > Ansible 6.0.0 will include ansible-core 2.13 as well as a curated set of > Ansible collections to provide a vast number of modules and plugins.
This is still not correct. ansible 6 requires ansible-core 2.13, which is provided separately from the "ansible" package at pypi.org. The "ansible" package is only a set of curated ansible collections.and does not contail ansible-core, which is verifiable by looking at the tarballs, or the relevant git repos, or installing them. There seems to be some concept of an "ansible" installation that includes both but it's not reflected in the code. There could easily be one: what is now "ansible" could be more consistently published as "ansible_collections", which is what it actually installs in a python directory, and "ansible" could be a meta package with requirements of "ansible-core" and the more correctly labeled "ansible_collections". Please, consider straightening out this confusion in the next major ansible release. In any case, I've updated my https://github.com/nkadel/ansiblerepo tools to build both packages as RPMs under RHEL 8 and RHEL 9. I've expressed my concerns about ansible-core 2.13 and the jinja2 dependencies which make it so awkward to bundle for RHEL 8 or RHEL 9 separately: it blocks building the documentation RPMs for either operating system because of the large dependency chain for the sphinx needed for jinja2 I'm so far unaware of any feature of ansible 6 that actually requires ansible-core 2.13 and will not interoperate well with ansible-core 2.12.6, and I've been divorcing ansible from high versioned ansible-core dependencies. I'm aware that some modules have imitations, with ansible-core versions, but they generally have internal logic that handles this, and the ansible_collections requirement thus seems no compelling reason to refuse compatibility with a more easily packaged ansible-core 2.12.6, at least until RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 can get updated jinja2. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAOCN9rwTNfp7sVYcvQeO67s1VWZxuqM_b-2nd-kqht_1wWdMmQ%40mail.gmail.com.
