requirements.yml location / ansible-galaxy installation behaviour

[madic-creates]

I've observed that Semaphore processes the requirements.yml file differently depending on its location in the repository. For example:

• When requirements.yml is placed in the roles folder, it installs all roles specified in the file but ignores collections.
• When requirements.yml is located in the repository's root folder, it installs all collections but ignores roles.

Is it possible to maintain a single requirements.yml file that can be used to install both collections and roles?

I've noticed that when running ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml --force directly (without specifying the collections or roles parameter), it properly installs everything defined in the requirements.yml file. Is there a way to achieve this same behavior in Semaphore to just use the mentioned ansible-galaxy command?

[btravouillon]

I hit the same issue and proposed a patch a few days ago in #2920 that should allow to install roles and collections from a single requirements.yml. The patch landed in https://github.com/semaphoreui/semaphore/releases/tag/v2.14.0-beta3, feel free to give it a try.

[madic-creates]

Still the same behavior. My requirements.yml is in the ./roles/ folder and semaphore v2.14.0-beta3 only installs the roles but not the collections.

[madic-creates]

I've taken a short look at the code. From my understanding, it should create a md5 file for role and for collection. In my case, it only creates one for "role": requirements.yml_role.md5. But I don't understand how your change tells ansible-galaxy to install both, collections and roles, from one requirements.yml

[madic-creates]

Removing the following line would fix my problem. This would install all collections and roles from the same requirements.yml file.

semaphore/db_lib/AnsibleApp.go

Line 104 in 1a6a182

string(requirementsType),

Tested in a local environment. Though I've no idea if this is the correct way in the global context of this project (probably not).

[madic-creates]

After further investigating the code, I found out how semaphore processes the requirements.yml It only runs the role and collection installation if the requirements.yml is in the root of the repository. Would have been way easier if this was documented. I'll take a look at the documentation and create a PR for this.

[madic-creates]

semaphoreui/semaphore-docs#82