I did some experimenting with this about a year ago. I have a repo that has a playbook that can build the packages for EL5 using python2.6 from EPEL.
NOTE: I don't necessarily recommend this, it was an experiment to see if it could be done WARNING: Proceed at your own risk ;) https://github.com/sivel/el5-python26-rpm The last release of Ansible to support EL5 natively was Ansible 2.3 On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 4:16 PM S C Rigler <[email protected]> wrote: > If you can install a newer python on the machines you should be able > to manage them by setting the inventory variable > "ansible_python_interpreter" for them to the path of the alternate > python interpreter. > > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:25 PM Adam E <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > hey there, i'm trying to manage a bunch of centos5/rhel5 systems with > ansible 2.7.5 > > > > On the target host I am able to install python 2.6 from epel which is > all good and ansible runs just fine for most stuff. The issue is with > anything related to packages (ie . package_facts and package). They both > rely on the "rpm" python library. > > > > > > Problem is, I can't figure out how to install this library on centos 5. > It seems the library is not available in epel > > > > I tried building from source but I then get the error below: > > # python26 > > Python 2.6.8 (unknown, Nov 7 2012, 14:47:45) > > [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)] on linux2 > > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > > >>> import rpm > > rpm.py:15: UserWarning: The RPM Python bindings are not currently > available via PyPI. > > > > > > Please install them with your distro package manager (typically called > > 'python2-rpm' or 'python3-rpm'), and ensure that any virtual environments > > needing the API are configured to be able to see the system site packages > > directory. > > > > > > warnings.warn(warning_msg) > > >>> > > > > > > If I can't get this working, I guess my only options are to either just > not manage packages on the legacy centos/rhel5 boxes or see about running > an older version (multiple versions) of ansible within AWX. > > > > Just wondering if anyone has went through this already and can provide > any tips. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ansible Project" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/18a045ee-1f63-437b-a8c5-d10880e5cd50%40googlegroups.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAFbiokdgxMddo%3D-DP%2B5LVrGqyL_4PoHAddii%2BWH2cscEKhtbyA%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Matt Martz @sivel sivel.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAD8N0v84Nf1P5KCPePKv_wgLte4W3q1XhAsJ2SGeSnC%3DEyPZYQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
