Does the role still support EL8?

[pfuntner]

I'm having trouble using the role on EL8 systems such as RedHat 8. I am aware of issues with ansible-core 2.17+ and have read this restriction from the role's README:

Note: Ansible 2.18 does no longer support the yum module and as such, is not supported by this role until Amazon Linux 2 reaches EoL.

It isn't clear to me whether this means we shouldn't expect the role to work with EL8 or not. Technically, dnf is used for package management on EL8 but see that the Ansible yum module is used by the role for all RedHat family distros. The role would likely fail even if the dnf was used for EL8 and the restriction only mentions Amazon Linux, not the rest of the older RedHat distros (Alma Linux 8, UBI 8, etc).

[alessfg]

Heya!

The role does support EL 8 right now as long as you use Ansible 2.16. It should support all other distros as long as you use Ansible 2.17. It won't work at all if you use Ansible 2.18.

yumis still the defacto package manager in this role since Amazon Linux 2 does not support dnf. This should not be an issue however since as of today all fedora based distros that I know of bind yum to dnf. Once Amazon Linux 2 reaches EoL I will update yum to use dnf instead.