Thank you. I will certainly make sure that the collections path is defined in ansible.cfg. And we often do run Ansible from a venv. But it is not in this case.
I also appreciate the tips on installing ansible-core to avoid collection bloat and setting the ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH. Now that I have seen all the junk comes with the 'ansible' package, I expect that 'ansible-core' with a well-curated requirements.yml file will become the standard. On Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 6:55:10 AM UTC-6 Dick Visser wrote: > I don't have a silver bullet, but to avoid surprises with collections in > multiple locations, you can hard code the collections path in your > ansible.cfg. > We use 'ansible-core' (not 'ansible') from a python venv, and when setting > that up, we install the collections in there: > > ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH=$(python -c "import site; > print(site.getsitepackages()[0])") ansible-galaxy collection install -r > galaxy-requirements.yml > > With this method you end up with the same structure as you would when pip > installing 'ansible', but without all the collection bloat that comes with > that. > > > > On Tue, 19 Sept 2023 at 09:25, Romain Pelisse <bel...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Generally, I simply do a "$ rm -rf >> /home/user/.ansible/ansible_collections/" to force a collection refresh. >> You can also just remove like that, the collection causing issues. >> >> Another strategy is to force the installation, using --force, which will >> remove the old version and install the new latest one. >> >> That beings said, I don't think there is a risk of running the wrong >> version. The presence of different version is probably because one >> collection depends on version X and another one depends on version Y. So >> the first one will use X and the second will use Y. >> >> On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 1:41 AM 'Eric Jolley' via Ansible Project < >> ansible...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I have an Ansible server with collections that are stored under a user >>> context in "/home/user/.ansible/ansible_collections/" in addition to the >>> collections for all users that are stored in >>> "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ansible_collections/". I found that there >>> are some duplicates of collections, such as "ansible.windows" that are >>> different versions. In order to mitigate the risk of running playbooks >>> using the wrong version of a collection, I want to remove the collections >>> that are installed under a user context. >>> >>> Unfortunately, I found that there isn't a remove argument for >>> "ansible-galaxy collection". And I didn't find anything in the Ansible >>> documentation or anything definitive in this Google group, nor doing Google >>> searches or ChatGPT. It is possible that deleting the specific folders >>> under /home/user/.ansible/ansible_collections/ would work. But I don't >>> know if that could have unintended consequences. So, I would like to get >>> some confirmation from anyone who has experience with this or knows where >>> it is documented. >>> >>> Does anyone know what the best practice is for removing installed >>> collections? >>> >>> Also, I have submitted an issue for the correct method to be documented >>> at: >>> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections_guide/index.html#using-ansible-collections. >>> >>> It will probably take a while for that issue to be taken on and resolved >>> though. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Eric >>> >>> -- >>> 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 ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/490f79e1-c2c2-48bf-99e4-fddea5bebe2an%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/490f79e1-c2c2-48bf-99e4-fddea5bebe2an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> 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 ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CALuBA_oxDhdC03uRCAU3i8f%2BfAeJ038SsCiWa%2B5mL7qM1kuP9A%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CALuBA_oxDhdC03uRCAU3i8f%2BfAeJ038SsCiWa%2B5mL7qM1kuP9A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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 ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/3c13fe10-235b-45d9-92e2-06b3c2df5e26n%40googlegroups.com.
