Cannot define a role dependency with source control repository url

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Hello,

This might be a dummy question but I’m stuck with role dependency definition in ansible.

I’d like to use a role defined in a git repository as a dependency for another role. In the doc I can see that:

Role dependencies can also be installed from source control repos or tar files, using a comma separated format of path, an optional version (tag, commit, branch etc) and optional friendly role name (an attempt is made to derive a role name from the repo name or archive filename):

dependencies:

  • { role: ‘git+http://git.example.com/repos/role-foo,v1.1,foo’ }
  • { role: ‘/path/to/tar/file.tgz,friendly-name’ }

I tried with a public github repo, let say something like https://github.com/myuser/my-role-test.git

I put this in the meta/main.yml file:

dependencies:

  • { role: ‘git+https://github.com/myuser/my-role-test.git,master,test-dep’ }

Then I run my playbook, and I get the following error:

ERROR: cannot find role in /var/lib/awx/projects/_1__myproject/roles/git+https:/github.com/myuser/test.git,master,test-dep or /var/lib/awx/projects/_1__myproject/git+https:/github.com/myuser/test.git,master,test-dep or /etc/ansible/roles/git+https:/github.com/myuser/test.git,master,test-dep

(Here you can guess I’m using tower. But for the purpose of this issue, I’m trying to run the playbook directly with ansible-playbook command.)

When I see this error message, I guess that the git url is just parsed like a directory structure. I’ve tried several url format like git@, git+ssh://, ssh://… No success.

So I had a look at ansible source code to figure out how the role value was parsed (play.py). I’m not a python expert however I can just see a _get_role_path method dealing exclusively with filesystem path stuff.

Is this “role dependency from git repo” feature real?

On the other side I can see this recent thread with famous people here talking about this feature…

I’m probably missing something. Can someone help?

Thank you!

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Hi Vincent,

Right now, you can install roles and dependencies via the ansible-galaxy command, however when those roles are executed via ansible-playbook, they need to be local. So I would recommend installing them first via the ansible-galaxy command. If you’re not familiar with it, please see this documentation page on how to install roles directly from git repositories:

http://docs.ansible.com/galaxy.html#advanced-control-over-role-requirements-files

Thanks!

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Ok, thank you.

I will wait for the 1.8 to be released then…

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I’m using ansible v2.3.2.0. How come I still can’t use git repos for role dependencies in a role’s meta/main.xml file? I’m using the OP’s syntax.

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dependencies:

or

dependencies:

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RTFM