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Automation for SAP - Collection of Ansible Roles for various SAP software installation
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sap_install_media_detect: Add an option for skipping handling RAR files #855

Closed berndfinger closed 2 months ago

berndfinger commented 2 months ago

We observed that when running the role on a RHEL system with the file /etc/yum/vars/releasever containing the string 9.4, the installation of the unar package from EPEL fails:

TASK [community.sap_install.sap_install_media_detect : SAP Install Media Detect - Prepare - EPEL - Install the unar package] ***************
fatal: [hana-p]: FAILED! => changed=false 
  msg: 'Failed to download metadata for repo ''epel'': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 404 for https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-9.4&arch=x86_64&infra=$infra&content=$contentdir (IP: 1.2.3.4)'
  rc: 1
  results: []

This issue can be worked around by installing a package for handling rar files separately and setting the role parameter sap_install_media_detect_rar_package accordingly.

As the unar package is only required for listing the contents of, and extracting, self-extracting RAR files, we should however implement an option for ignoring the RAR handling.

berndfinger commented 2 months ago

BTW We already have a tag for the tasks which are handling the RAR files: sap_install_media_detect_rar_handling

ja9fuchs commented 2 months ago

Just to be clear, the main issue seems to be either a bug in the epel repo rpm that ships files with $releasever in the mirror urls instead of the usual major version string, or it is an issue with the mirror routes not providing the path for RHEL 9.4 specifically. It partially works (for the one epel repo we use, out of several in the config) on e.g. 9.2.

berndfinger commented 2 months ago

Solved by #856.