# Behaviour of the Ansible yum module with enablerepo and disablerepo **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [October 15, 2015, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/behaviour-of-the-ansible-yum-module-with-enablerepo-and-disablerepo/19510 "2015-10-15T07:50:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guillaume\_Belrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Guillaume\_Belrose](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guillaume_Belrose)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/behaviour-of-the-ansible-yum-module-with-enablerepo-and-disablerepo/19510/1 "2015-10-15T07:50:34Z")
Hi all, I am using Ansible 1.9.2 on CentOS 6.7. I am designing a system which can deploy software onto machines when those machines don’t have access to the Internet. I basically have an Ansible controller node with cached RPMs and a web server. On each target node, I have defined a .repo file to instruct each node to fetch the rpms from the web server. When I do the deployment, I am finding that the yum module does not work. For example, executing the following task fails: - name: install the MySQL-python package yum: disablerepo=\* enablerepo=ansible name=MySQL-python The error message is: TASK: [icingaweb2 | install the MySQL-python package] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* failed: [192.168.50.201] =\> {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “rc”: 0, “results”: } msg: No Package matching ‘MySQL-python’ found available, installed or updated FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting However if I use the yum command via an Ansible shell, the package is installed correctly: - name: install the MySQL-python package shell: yum -y --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=ansible install MySQL-python I was wondering if I am not using the yum module correctly or if this is an Ansible bug. Thanks in advance. Guillaume. ---
**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/behaviour-of-the-ansible-yum-module-with-enablerepo-and-disablerepo/19510/2 "2015-10-15T21:32:47Z")
Your playbook looks correct but I am unable to reproduce your problem with Fedora 21 and ansible-1.9.3-2 from the Fedora packages: ---
**Author:** ![smalenfant](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/smalenfant/32/2389_2.png) [@smalenfant](https://forum.ansible.com/u/smalenfant)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/behaviour-of-the-ansible-yum-module-with-enablerepo-and-disablerepo/19510/3 "2015-10-22T13:46:00Z")
I’ve got the same problem here on both 1.9.2 and 1.9.4. You need some “unreachable” repos in your /etc/yum.repos.d configured to reproduce. Example : I’m using this here “yum: name={{ item }} disablerepo=\* enablerepo=private\* state=present” and the output is like this : failed: [[psp6cdvhst07.coxlab.net](http://psp6cdvhst07.coxlab.net)] =\> (item=yum-utils,libselinux-python) =\> {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “item”: “yum-utils,libselinux-python”, “rc”: 0, “results”: } msg: No Package matching ‘yum-utils’ found available, installed or updated Although if I use the yum CLI “# yum install yum-utils --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=private\*” it works just fine. Really does create a problem installing on servers on Private IP space which aren’t connect to internet. Steve ---
**Author:** ![smalenfant](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/smalenfant/32/2389_2.png) [@smalenfant](https://forum.ansible.com/u/smalenfant)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 2:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/behaviour-of-the-ansible-yum-module-with-enablerepo-and-disablerepo/19510/4 "2015-10-22T14:20:58Z")
If you use disablerepo=base,updates,extras it seems to work. the Wildcard doesn’t seem to work. ??? ---
**Author:** ![Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Toshio\_Kuratomi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Toshio_Kuratomi)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/behaviour-of-the-ansible-yum-module-with-enablerepo-and-disablerepo/19510/5 "2015-10-27T22:29:15Z")
I still have not been able to replicate this. Taking all the things that people have said on this list I just ran a test on a centos6 host: $ cat /etc/redhat-release                     (15:20:34) CentOS release 6.6 (Final) with ansible-1.9.2 from the epel repository. [pts/0@rhel6 ~]$ rpm -q ansible                                    (15:21:01) ansible-1.9.2-1.el6.noarch [pts/0@rhel6 ~]$ ansible --version                                    (15:21:06) [WARNING]: The version of gmp you have installed has a known issue regarding timing vulnerabilities when used with pycrypto. If possible, you should update it (i.e. yum update gmp). ansible 1.9.2   configured module search path = None I have a repository that is unreachable enabled in /etc/yum.repos.d: [pts/0@rhel6 ~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/broken.repo                                    (15:21:37) [broken] name=Broken baseurl=[http://download.fedoraproject.org/broken](http://download.fedoraproject.org/broken) failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6 [pts/0@rhel6 ~]$ sudo yum install -y python-q                                    (15:22:08) Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Setting up Install Process Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile \* base: mirror.lax.hugeserver.com \* epel: linux.mirrors.es.net \* extras: mirrors.psychz.net \* updates: centos.mirrors.hoobly.com [http://download.fedoraproject.org/broken/repodata/repomd.xml:](http://download.fedoraproject.org/broken/repodata/repomd.xml:) [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found" Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: broken. Please verify its path and try again The playbook seems to contain all the same pieces (including use of wildcards in both disable and enablerepo): [pts/0@rhel6 ~]$ cat yum.yml                                    (15:26:51)