sap_install_media_detect: test if CRB repo is responsive

[sean-freeman]

Ansible Role

sap_install_media_detect

OS Family

RHEL

Ansible Controller - Python version

Python 3.13.3

Ansible-core version

ansible [core 2.16.13]

Bug Description

codeready OS Package Repo is not enabled as standard on RHEL OS Images, and may not be tested. When enabling epel OS Package Repo, best practice is to enable codeready before - but it is not mandatory for successful installation of unar.

See below stdout of failure where codeready was non-responsive, the workaround is to disable the repo in subscription-manager and remove from the yum repos file - then the Ansible Task will be automatically skipped.

A small test would stop this panic failure that stops the Ansible Role from executing correctly:

TASK [community.sap_install.sap_install_media_detect : SAP Install Media Detect - Prepare - EPEL - Detect the presence of the epel-release package] ********************************
ok: [sap-test] =>
    changed: false
    cmd:
    - rpm
    - -q
    - epel-release
    - --qf
    - '%{NAME}'
    failed_when_result: false
    msg: non-zero return code
    rc: 1
    stderr: ''
    stdout: package epel-release is not installed

TASK [community.sap_install.sap_install_media_detect : SAP Install Media Detect - Prepare - EPEL - Import the EPEL GPG key] ********************************************************
changed: [sap-test] =>
    attempts: 1
    changed: true

TASK [community.sap_install.sap_install_media_detect : SAP Install Media Detect - Prepare - EPEL - Enable the EPEL repo] ***********************************************************
changed: [sap-test] =>
    attempts: 1
    changed: true
    msg: ''
    rc: 0
    results:
    - Installed /root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1748958005.34753-95973-31054622192967/epel-release-latest-9.noarchf6oj60ap.rpm
    - 'Installed: epel-release-9-10.el9.noarch'

TASK [community.sap_install.sap_install_media_detect : SAP Install Media Detect - Prepare - EPEL - Enable the CRB repo] ************************************************************
changed: [sap-test] =>
    changed: true
    cmd:
    - /usr/bin/crb
    - enable
    msg: ''
    rc: 0
    stderr: ''
    stdout: |-
        Enabling CRB repo
        Repository 'codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms' is enabled for this system.
        CRB repo is enabled and named: codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms

TASK [community.sap_install.sap_install_media_detect : SAP Install Media Detect - Prepare - EPEL - Install the unar package] *******************************************************
fatal: [sap-test]: FAILED! =>
    changed: false
    msg: 'Failed to download metadata for repo ''codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms'':
        Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were
        tried'
    rc: 1
    results: []

Bug reproduction

Edit URL in repo file for codeready, so that it causes HTTP 404 error. This simulate the error above.

Community participation

Unfortunately I am not in a position to help with the bug fix

[sean-freeman]

Update, running subscription-manager repos --disable=codeready-builder-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms is enough to trigger the skip:

TASK [community.sap_install.sap_install_media_detect : SAP Install Media Detect - Prepare - EPEL - Enable the CRB repo] ************
skipping: [sap-test2] =>
    changed: false
    false_condition: __sap_install_media_detect_register_rpm_q_epel.stdout != 'epel-release'
    skip_reason: Conditional result was False