Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/ansible-core

[Kimmo Suominen <kim%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi Adam,

Please respond.

I think the best course of action would be to revert the ansible-core
2.19.0 upgrade and track ansible-core 2.18.x until the ansible package
is upgraded to 12 (after that version has been released by upstream).

    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_11.html#ansible-minor-releases

    Ansible 11.x follows ansible-core-2.18.x releases, so releases
    will occur approximately every four weeks. If ansible-core delays
    a release for whatever reason, the next Ansible 11.x minor release
    will be delayed accordingly.

A more comprehensive support for multiple ansible versions would require
maintaining separate ansible11 and ansible12 packages (and so forth),
but that seems like too much work and/or overkill.

It is noteworthy, though, that the exact dependencies for the ansible
package ("Ansible Community Collection") are actually published, and
strictly speaking we might need to follow those.

    https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/main/11/ansible-11.8.0.deps

The ansible-core 2.19.x release may require playbook changes to use, and
it least for my playbooks did.  It cannot be included in the ansible 11
package.

    https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/roadmap/COLLECTIONS_12.html

Kind regards,
+ Kimmo


On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 11:14:26PM +0300, Kimmo Suominen wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2025 at 08:57:00AM +0000, Adam Ciarcinski wrote:
> > Module Name:        pkgsrc
> > Committed By:       adam
> > Date:               Sun Aug 10 08:57:00 UTC 2025
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     pkgsrc/sysutils/ansible-core: Makefile PLIST distinfo
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > ansible-core: updated to 2.19.0
> 
> We now have a situation where our ansible 11.8.0 package pulls in
> ansible-core 2.19.0, which is only supposed to be in ansible 12.
> 
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.html
> 
> This does not feel right.
> 
> Kind regards,
> + Kimmo
>