AWX sync not possible - Illegal filename ..

[ropitz-wago]

After an update to the newest AWX execution environment we can't sync your repo via requirements.txt in a project anymore.

Error Message:

- extracting willshersystems.sshd to /var/lib/awx/.../stage/requirements_roles/willshersystems.sshd
[WARNING]: Illegal filename '..': '..' is not allowed
ERROR! Unexpected Exception, this is probably a bug: join() missing 1 required positional argument: 'a'

Solution:
We forked you repo and deleted the symlink and it works now.

ansible-sshd/tests/roles$ ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6  9. Okt 10:55 ansible-sshd -> ../../

[jose-d]

as noted here, #176 (comment), this role is part of collection fedora.linux_system_roles.

From my knowledge of AWX it's cleaner to use the collection instead of manually installing roles.

[hv15]

@ropitz-wago what version of ansible are you using, with ansible-core 2.15.5 symlinks in roles are no longer allowed, see https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.15.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.15.rst#id20.

EDIT: opened up seperate issue for this: #260

[ropitz-wago]

@hv15, I know, that's why I opened the issue. In this role (repo) there is a symlink and it's unuseable.

[richm]

I think the problem is that the symlink causes a recursive path. The tests/roles symlink is needed because of the way we run integration tests from the tests/ directory. We had the same problem with other linux-system-roles. The solution is to create a directory tests/roles/ansible-sshd/ and in this directory create symlinks to the role subdirectories - ../../../tasks/, ../../../defaults/, ../../../vars, etc. That way, the symlinks won't be recursive.

[mattwillsher]

Closing in favour of #260 . Thank you for the report.