Toby, not really a reply to your searches but just an idea:
why not bootstrap pip via get-pip.py (https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py)
and then use pip to install virtualenv and anything else?
-Y.
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As a follow up, it seems if I drop the extra_args parameter some packages
are installed, except of course those packages that need the
--allow-external flag. However when using this flag everything is reported
as installed successfully but it seems the packages are actually skipped.
Is this a
I got to the bottom of this:
I forgot to add the package name to allow-external i.e.
extra_args=--allow-external mysql-connector-python
Now everything works as expected. I would still suggest that there is a
(minor) bug if ansible reports a package is successfully installed when in
fact it is
