do not use cron when installing from distribution on Debian

[xiruizhao]

Debian distribution package provides a systemd timer for certificate auto renewal

[maxtruxa]

I work around this by setting certbot_auto_renew: false on Debian, but it sure would be nice to have this behavior by default.

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[maxtruxa]

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[evilhamsterman]

I think a better way of doing this would be to create a file in vars called Debian.yml with the line certbot_auto_renew: false. @geerlingguy's roles will pull from vars files named after the ansible_os_family for distro or family specific features.

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[evilhamsterman]

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[rotanid]

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[markstos]

I ran this playbook on Ubuntu and then used systemctl list-timers to confirm certbot.timer was present and runing and it was. I recommend merging this.

[evilhamsterman]

@geerlingguy I know you are very busy but this is a very simple fix that has been sitting for a long time. Can you either accept this PR or add certbot_auto_renew: false to your Debian.yml vars file?

[xiruizhao]

See https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/all/certbot/filelist (debian 11.4), https://packages.debian.org/stretch/all/certbot/filelist (debian 9.3)

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[rotanid]

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[xiruizhao]

Distribution package users with systemd timers should turn off certbot_auto_renew.

[markstos]

This is commonly installed directly with Ansible. The role supports Debian already, and replacing systemd timers with cron a better choice on Debian and should be set in the role itself.