Error in meta_dependency_check with AAP 2.5 using ansible.controller and collection version 2.11.0

[bogdanmuresan]

Summary

Job fails with:

TASK [infra.controller_configuration.meta_dependency_check : Ensure one is installed] ***  
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "One of awx.awx or ansible.controller must be installed"}

Because:

changed: false
stdout: ''
stderr: "\e[0;35m[DEPRECATION WARNING]: ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS option, does not fit var \e[0m\n\e[0;35mnaming standard, use the singular form ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH instead. This \e[0m\n\e[0;35mfeature will be removed from ansible-core in version 2.19. Deprecation warnings\e[0m\n\e[0;35m can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.\e[0m\n\e[0;31mERROR! Error when getting collection version metadata for ansible.controller:4.6.2 from default (https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/) (HTTP Code: 404, Message: Not found. Code: not_found)\e[0m"
rc: 1
cmd:
  - ansible-galaxy
  - collection
  - verify
  - ansible.controller
start: '2024-11-21 09:42:15.078312'
end: '2024-11-21 09:42:17.008850'
delta: '0:00:01.930538'
msg: non-zero return code
invocation:
  module_args:
    _raw_params: ansible-galaxy collection verify ansible.controller
    _uses_shell: false
    expand_argument_vars: true
    stdin_add_newline: true
    strip_empty_ends: true
    argv: null
    chdir: null
    executable: null
    creates: null
    removes: null
    stdin: null
stdout_lines: []
stderr_lines:
  - "\e[0;35m[DEPRECATION WARNING]: ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS option, does not fit var \e[0m"
  - "\e[0;35mnaming standard, use the singular form ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH instead. This \e[0m"
  - "\e[0;35mfeature will be removed from ansible-core in version 2.19. Deprecation warnings\e[0m"
  - "\e[0;35m can be disabled by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.\e[0m"
  - "\e[0;31mERROR! Error when getting collection version metadata for ansible.controller:4.6.2 from default (https://galaxy.ansible.com/api/) (HTTP Code: 404, Message: Not found. Code: not_found)\e[0m"
_ansible_no_log: false
failed_when_result: false

I am not sure why it looks for the ansible.controller collection on galaxy, but shouldn't the check use the offline mode?
https://github.com/redhat-cop/infra.aap_configuration/blob/devel/roles/meta_dependency_check/tasks/main.yml#L21

ansible-galaxy collection verify ansible.controller --offline

Or am I doing something wrong? I
Workaround for now is to set controller_dependency_check: false

Later edit: I see this has been fixed in 3.0.0 by setting controller_dependency_check to false.
Still, I leave this here, as I think the proper fix is to use the offline argument with ansible-galaxy

Issue Type

• Bug Report

[djdanielsson]

We are not supporting(fixing any issues) 2.5 with controller_configurtion is not written to work with 2.5. Migrate to aap_configuration if you want to do config as code for AAP 2.5.