Not able to build debian package for ansible 1.9.4

[Ankit Kulkarni]

Hi Guys, 

Quite for few times we have been using ansible 1.9.4 as CM and deployment tool( ansible-pull )  for our production systems ( Ubuntu 14.04 64bit devices) which are scattered around the world . Everything was working well until the ppa-repo for Ubuntu got updated with the latest version to 2.0.0 making 1.9.4 unavailable via apt-get method . 

The installation using pip for 1.9.4 was not a good choice for us as the default installation directories for both the system is changed (apt method uses /usr/bin while pip uses /usr/local/bin and now some of . I really want ansible to reside on /usr/bin path rather then /usr/local/bin  . 

The last method I wanted to try is to build a deb package from source and install via it .This is the first time I am building a debian package from source and followed instructions from ansible docs . Checked out in stable-1.9 branch and ran  `make deb` . 

However seems I got few errors while building from both the ansible-1.9.4 tar ball from http://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ and from the GitHub source code . I have tried compiling deb package on Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit with gcc g++ 4.9.3 running on it .Kernel version - 3.19.0-37-generic 

• From tar ball - (Complete log at - http://pastebin.com/fXuKiHU3) 
• cp: cannot stat ‘packaging/debian’: No such file or directory
• sed: can't read deb-build/unstable/ansible-1.9.4/debian/changelog: No such file or directory
• From github source and checkout to stable-1.9 (Complete log - http://pastebin.com/T40EZqyy) 
• build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7' does not exist -- can't clean it
  
• dpkg-deb: building package `ansible' in `../ansible_1.9.4-0.git201601201800~unstable_all.deb'.

The second method built the deb package but built in unstable . I am pretty sure that it means the package is unstable . I did not got what did I missed . Is there a place from where I can get the pre built deb packages for these versions . Help appreciated  .

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 22. jan. 2016 11:35, Ankit Kulkarni wrote:
> Quite for few times we have been using ansible 1.9.4 as CM and deployment
> tool( ansible-pull ) for our production systems ( Ubuntu 14.04 64bit
> devices) which are scattered around the world . Everything was working well

> until the ppa-repo <https://launchpad.net/~ansible/+archive/ansible> for

> Ubuntu got updated with the latest version to 2.0.0 making 1.9.4
> unavailable via apt-get method .

You could install Ansible from the 16.04 universe repository[1], it
works great on 14.04.

[1]
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/a/ansible/ansible_1.9.4-1_all.deb

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Ankit Kulkarni]

Thanks a loto.  That worked for us .  The problem we were facing with pip installation method even after creating symlink of /usr/local/bin/ansible to /usr/bin/ansible was that pip by default do not creates the ansible.cfg file in /etc/ansible . Creating the directory and adding config to it also worked for us. 

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Kai Stian Olstad