By using `module_defaults` in a play, you can impact all uses of an underlying module.
This can be done for `yum`, even if using the `package` module. https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_module_defaults.html There is however a bug in Ansible 2.8 that prevents this from working right now, but a backport PR is waiting to be merged: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/56400 On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:59 PM Scott Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > If I'm calling the role newrelic.newrelic-infra that uses the package > module > <https://github.com/newrelic/infrastructure-agent-ansible/blob/34e290787a83a47d4edb77dcae7685c942515a39/tasks/install_dist_pkgs.yml#L85>, > is there a way to set or override lock_timeout's default value of 0 ? > Can you suggest another solution than forking the role, rewriting the task > in an OS dependent way using the yum module and setting lock_timeout ? > > I have a simple playbook below to setup a web application firewall. I'm > using Amazon Linux 2 (4.14.123-111.109.amzn2.x86_64) with python (v2.7.14) > that has installed Ansible (v2.8.1) via pip. Packer (v1.4.1) builds of > AMI's thru ansible_local fail with > > amazon-ebs: TASK [roles/newrelic.newrelic-infra : install agent] > *************************** > amazon-ebs: fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "yum > lockfile is held by another process"} > > --- > - hosts: all > become: true > roles: > - roles/geerlingguy.apache > - roles/newrelic.newrelic-infra > - roles/ansible-role-apache-modsecurity > - roles/nickhammond.logrotate > tasks: > <-- snip --> > > -- > 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/55d1ab83-32c1-43fa-9bd5-9b4dbefcab4f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/55d1ab83-32c1-43fa-9bd5-9b4dbefcab4f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > 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/CAD8N0v9jzpsNOR4F0XedwThsj3KSbWLrayBSkNzAyFvT3xu_7g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
