podman plugin does not download dependencies of roles when importing

[staticdev]

I have a repo of an ansible role tested with molecule for some years now. Without a real change, my tests started failing on August 2023 when I import my role due to its dependencies on meta/main.yml.

I see on an early step:

Molecule default > dependency
  Starting galaxy role install process
  - staticdev.pyenv (2.10.2) is already installed, skipping.
  INFO     Dependency completed successfully.
  WARNING  Skipping, missing the requirements file.

For some reason I get the error:

  TASK [Include staticdev.python_developer] **************************************
  ERROR! the role 'staticdev.pyenv' was not found in ansible.legacy:/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer/staticdev.python_developer/molecule/default/roles:/home/runner/.cache/molecule/staticdev.python_developer/default/roles:/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer:/home/runner/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer:/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer/staticdev.python_developer/molecule/default
  
  The error appears to be in '/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer/staticdev.python_developer/meta/main.yml': line 37, column 5, but may
  be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
  
  The offending line appears to be:
  
  dependencies:
    - name: staticdev.pyenv
      ^ here

The role exists on Ansible Galaxy with correct version. This error only happens on Github Actions, but not locally. I do not really understand why, but on my path locally molecule can find staticdev.pyenv and can import statically. Do I need to add anything extra to install the requirements?

I tried found a change in the docs for syntax of role-file to requirements-file, but both syntaxes give the same failure:

dependency:
  name: galaxy
  options:
    requirements-file: requirements.yml

[zhan9san]

@staticdev

Sorry to make you confused. I don't find any dependency in the repo you provided.

Please follow this document to set the dependency for molecule, https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/molecule/configuration/#dependency

And if the dependency is for the role itself, it should be in meta/main.yaml while if the dependency is only for the molecule test, it should be in molecule.yaml

Let me know if it works for you

[staticdev]

Thanks for your answer @zhan9san! Actually I always had the dependency for my role on meta/main.yml, I also tried adding in addition to there, also on dependency.yml and configure both role-file and requirements-file to dependency.yml. On the logs on my GA tests with molecule 6 I had in the logs:

Molecule default > dependency
  Starting galaxy role install process
  - staticdev.pyenv (2.10.2) is already installed, skipping.
  INFO     Dependency completed successfully.
  WARNING  Skipping, missing the requirements file.
...
Molecule default > converge
  
  PLAY [Converge] ****************************************************************
  
  TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
  ok: [instance]
  
  TASK [Update apt cache.] *******************************************************
  changed: [instance]
  
  TASK [Update pyOpenSSL.] *******************************************************
  changed: [instance]
  
  TASK [Include staticdev.python_developer] **************************************
  ERROR! the role 'staticdev.pyenv' was not found in ansible.legacy:/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer/staticdev.python_developer/molecule/default/roles:/home/runner/.cache/molecule/staticdev.python_developer/default/roles:/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer:/home/runner/.ansible/roles:/usr/share/ansible/roles:/etc/ansible/roles:/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer:/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer/staticdev.python_developer/molecule/default
  
  The error appears to be in '/home/runner/work/ansible-role-python-developer/ansible-role-python-developer/staticdev.python_developer/meta/main.yml': line 37, column 5, but may
  be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
  
  The offending line appears to be:
  
  dependencies:
    - name: staticdev.pyenv
      ^ here

I noticed on last major release of molecule it stopped installing it for some reason and I saw some changes related to dependencies such as ansible/molecule#3956. To continue with my role, I found a solution to not have a dependency at all, but I believe there could be a bug in molecule. It can be verified checking our my previous commit to this one staticdev/ansible-role-python-developer@65eb677#diff-92c74e80f0140aa012f39f58b4259dbe74401cdc9a0b84269295f480b9961809

[zhan9san]

@staticdev

There must be some misunderstand on https://github.com/ansible/molecule/pull/3956/files.

It is said the role-path and collection-path would be removed and they should be configured in ansible.cfg, which has no effect on role-file and requirements-file described in this doc, https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/molecule/configuration/#dependency

Here is what I tested.

$ cat molecule/default/molecule.yml
---
dependency:
  name: galaxy
  options:
    requirements-file: requirements.yml

$ cat requirements.yml
roles:
  - name: staticdev.pyenv
    version: 2.10.2

[staticdev]

@staticdev

There must be some misunderstand on https://github.com/ansible/molecule/pull/3956/files.

It is said the role-path and collection-path would be removed and they should be configured in ansible.cfg, which has no effect on role-file and requirements-file described in this doc, https://ansible.readthedocs.io/projects/molecule/configuration/#dependency

Here is what I tested.

$ cat molecule/default/molecule.yml
---
dependency:
  name: galaxy
  options:
    requirements-file: requirements.yml

$ cat requirements.yml
roles:
  - name: staticdev.pyenv
    version: 2.10.2

This is exactly what I had for a long time in this repo and it always worked until August. I did no change on it's test config except the upgrades on external packages such as molecule. I don't have a clue why it broke.