# Ansible Tower 3.1.1 fails to pull down roles using galaxy on project updates

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-1-1-fails-to-pull-down-roles-using-galaxy-on-project-updates/23940>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** awx, galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [March 11, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-1-1-fails-to-pull-down-roles-using-galaxy-on-project-updates/23940 "2017-03-11T23:13:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Sabo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Sabo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Sabo)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-1-1-fails-to-pull-down-roles-using-galaxy-on-project-updates/23940/1 "2017-03-11T23:13:19Z")

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Hello,

In Ansible Tower 3.1.1 assuming you have a project\_dir/roles/requirements.yml Tower is supposed to use Galaxy to download the roles for you. The playbook installed by Tower 3.1.1 has the following task:

- name: fetch galaxy roles from requirements.yml  
command: ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml -p {{project\_path|quote}}/roles/ --force  
args:  
chdir: “{{project\_path|quote}}/roles”  
when: doesRequirementsExist.stat.exists and scm\_full\_checkout|bool

The scm\_full\_checkout variable is commented out a bunch of times in this playbook.

[root@ip-10-241-0-251 awx]# grep -r scm\_full\_checkout venv/  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #clone: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #update: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #clone: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #update: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #clone: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #update: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #checkout: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #update: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #checkout: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: #update: “{{ scm\_full\_checkout }}”  
venv/tower/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awx/playbooks/project\_update.yml: when: doesRequirementsExist.stat.exists and scm\_full\_checkout|bool

What do you need to do to turn scm\_full\_checkout to true to Tower will download the roles defined in the requirements.yml?

Thanks,

Jonathan

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-tower-3-1-1-fails-to-pull-down-roles-using-galaxy-on-project-updates/23940/2 "2017-03-12T16:33:05Z")

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