# Role dependencies gets skipped in ansible 2

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/role-dependencies-gets-skipped-in-ansible-2/20803>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 8, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/role-dependencies-gets-skipped-in-ansible-2/20803 "2016-03-08T13:43:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![deep.d2010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@deep.d2010](https://forum.ansible.com/u/deep.d2010)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/role-dependencies-gets-skipped-in-ansible-2/20803/1 "2016-03-08T13:43:28Z")

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Hi,

I was trying to upgrade from ansible 1.8.4 to ansible 2, and noticed that some of my roles with meta dependencies stopped working.

I have these roles

```auto
role-main1/meta/main.yml

```

```auto
---
dependencies:
  - { role: role-dependency }

```

```auto

```

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**Author:** ![Grim76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@Grim76](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Grim76)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/role-dependencies-gets-skipped-in-ansible-2/20803/2 "2016-06-01T18:24:12Z")

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I am having the same issue. Have you been able to find a fix to this?

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**Author:** ![amitk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@amitk](https://forum.ansible.com/u/amitk)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/role-dependencies-gets-skipped-in-ansible-2/20803/3 "2016-06-16T22:04:17Z")

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Hi,

I am also having slightly related problem.

My roles structure are as follows

role-main1/meta/main.yml

---

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**Author:** ![Martin\_Studer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Martin\_Studer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Martin_Studer)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/role-dependencies-gets-skipped-in-ansible-2/20803/4 "2016-07-25T13:07:50Z")

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Hi,

I’m experiencing exactly the same issue. I found there is a property “allow\_duplicates” (see [http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks\_roles.html](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_roles.html)) but that doesn’t seem to work for dependent roles …

Best regards,  
Martin