How do you keep your ansible collections and roles from the galaxy current ?

[Norbert Klamann]

Hallo all,

what is the best way to keep the ansible collections and roles current which you use ?

 I think about parsing the output of `ansible-galaxy role list` or `ansible-galaxy collection list` but this is not very elegant.

I think I overlook a very simple solution, can somebody point me in the right directione, please ?

Many thanks

Norbert

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Why would you want to? Any, and all, of the modules, mostly third
party modules, can have ansible breaking updates without warning. An
annual or semi-annual review, with smoke tests, might work well. What
is wrong with "inelegant", especially when it avoids the half a
Gigabyte of local disk space that the modern and misnamed "ansible"
package provides? It's really "ansible_collections", the name is very
misleading, and the modern "ansible-core" package actually contains
the working ansible code from https://github.com/ansible/ansible/ and
installs the ansible modules.

If you'd like to double check the current bundled list for comparison,
you can compare them to
https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/ config files,
which are used to generate the mislabeled "ansible" tarball.

[John Petro]

If I am understanding the requirement here.   You want to be able to grab a specific version of a role or collection for some reason.    If that is what you are asking for, then what about cloning the collection or role to a personal git repository.

--John

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 3:30 AM Norbert Klamann <norbert...@klamann-software.de> wrote:

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