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

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

Hi Adam,

So, please will you revert back to ansible-core 2.18.x for now?

Or did you have some arguments for why pkgsrc should provide
an ansible 11 package that differs radically from upstream?

Kind regards,
+ Kimmo


On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 12:52:34AM +0300, Kimmo Suominen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 12:51:34AM +0300, Kimmo Suominen wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 06:42:51PM +0200, Adam wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Do you get an error message when using ansible-11 with ansible-core-2.19?
> > > 
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Adam
> > 
> > Yes, I do.  For example, dict.update and list.update can no longer be used.
> > To continue using such playbooks without modifications, one needs ansible 11,
> > not ansible 12.  We should only provide ansible-core-2.19 with ansible 12.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > + Kimmo
> 
> *list.append
>