Can't find package `gitlab-runner`

[artinnok]

Hi @riemers!

Thank you so much for amazing Ansible role - I believe it really helps.

I tried to use it with following playbook:

- name: Setup
  hosts: staging
  become: true
  vars_files:
    - vars/vault.yaml
  tasks:
    - name: Install Gitlab Runner
      include_role:
        name: riemers.gitlab-runner

Managed node specs:

> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

> uname -a
Linux staging-master 5.4.0-122-generic #138-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 22 15:00:31 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I got this error:

TASK [riemers.gitlab-runner : (Debian) Unhold GitLab Runner version] ****************************************************************************************************
fatal: [142.93.161.200]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to find package 'gitlab-runner' to perform selection 'install'."}

Also I tried to use Ubuntu 22 and got the same error.

I googled and found this issue, maybe it can help for some workaround.

Feel free to ask questions. Hope you can help me with this.

Thanks, Artem.

[Flowm]

Ran into the same issue just now. Not sure about the cause, but I was able to work around this by temporarily removing the failing task as its only purpose is to unpin/ unhold the specified version in order to switch to a different version. As this was an ansible run on a clean install there is no packaged pinned and this step isn't required.

diff --git a/tasks/install-debian.yml b/tasks/install-debian.yml
index bed1dc7..2eed085 100644
--- a/tasks/install-debian.yml
+++ b/tasks/install-debian.yml
@@ -30,12 +30,6 @@
     gitlab_runner_package_state: "latest"
   when: gitlab_runner_package_version is not defined

-- name: (Debian) Unhold GitLab Runner version
-  changed_when: false
-  dpkg_selections:
-    name: "{{ gitlab_runner_package_name }}"
-    selection: install
-
 - name: (Debian) Install GitLab Runner
   apt:
     name: "{{ gitlab_runner_package }}"

[artinnok]

@Flowm thank you for providing details!

I was forced to make few more changes in files:

• tasks/install-debian.yml
• tasks/register-runner.yml

Full diff of my changes available at - https://github.com/riemers/ansible-gitlab-runner/compare/master...artinnok:ansible-gitlab-runner:master

Only after such modifications I was able to run this role.

[github-actions[bot]]

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[tmsmako]

Hello @riemers!

Using this role to maintain several machines and looking forward for an "official" fix that allows to skip (Debian) Unhold GitLab Runner version. Please..! :)

[guenhter]

Feel free to submit a MR which fixes this. This repo is from-the-community-for-the-community.