"You're killing me Smalls." or issues using Ansible 2.4 and Packer on RHEL 7

[Dan Linder]

For the past few months I've had a Packer build process that would pull in the Ansible core command line tool from EPEL and use it during the first stage of the Packer process while building my generic VM templates.

With the release of 2.4, Ansible Core was removed from EPEL and placed into https://releases.ansible.com, so I added it as well as EPEL to my build process (it still relies on some packages only available via EPEL).

Sadly, the 2.4 release also appears to require the Python2-cryptography package which is only available from the RedHat "Extras" file set (which is only available after a system has registered with Satellite).

Is there a step or process I'm missing or totally off track for this, or do I need to retrieve and add that last remaining package as a manual upload and install into my Packer build process?

Thanks!

Dan

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

what hypervisor are you using?

I would cache the Python2-cryptography in some local site and install it like yum install-local -y

you could create a repo for it as part of the bootstrap process and then when you register with satellite you remove that repo.

Alvaro

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[Dan Linder]

Hypervisor is currently VMWare Workstation 12.5 on Windows 10, but I'm planning to re-point the Packer steps at our VMware ESX/VSphere servers in the future.

Dan

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