The JWS installation option should allow you to exclude natives

[csutherl]

SUMMARY

Not everyone wants to deploy the natives zip in their environment, so we should easily allow you to disable that requirement. I don't see an easy way to do so in the current setup. I've tried setting the jws_native_zipfile_url to an empty string but it still tries.

TASK [middleware_automation.jws.jws : Install JWS native dependencies with zipfile from RHN:] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
skipping: [localhost]

TASK [middleware_automation.jws.jws : Copy archives to target nodes] *********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost] => (item=jws-5.6.0-application-server.zip)
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: If you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option
failed: [localhost] (item=jws-5.6.0-application-server-RHEL35-x86_64.zip) => {"ansible_loop_var": "item", "changed": false, "item": "jws-5.6.0-application-server-RHEL35-x86_64.zip", "msg": "Could not find or access '/root/jws-5.6.0-application-server-RHEL35-x86_64.zip' on the Ansible Controller.\nIf you are using a module and expect the file to exist on the remote, see the remote_src option"}

Note that I'm testing on Fedora and even though it's an unsupported configuration I expected the JWS java only zip to install and run correctly.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Idea

[rpelisse]

@csutherl I was surprised, because I remember adding something about that. Checking the code, there is this check:

 set_fact:
    zipfiles: "{{ zipfiles + [{ 'src': native_zipfile, 'creates': tomcat.home + '/lib/libtcnative-1.so' }] }}"
  when:
    - native_zipfile is defined
    - native_zipfile | length > 0

So, if you define native_zipfile as an empty array, it should do the tricks:

native_zipfile: []

If this indeed works for you, we'll add the much needed documentation about it (and maybe default this value to []).

[csutherl]

It doesn't matter what I set native_zipfile to in the playbook, it doesn't change the value and results in failure :( Looking into that a bit further, you can't set native_zipfile at all because it doesn't get set in the defatults, it gets set in the rhn.yml so you can't override it. I think either we have to move that value to the defaults so you can override, or add another option to allow explicit exclusion. We could add a tomcat_native_enabled setting which then requires the native zip.

[rpelisse]

Darn! But thanks for checking this. I'll try to reproduce and fix asap.

[rpelisse]

Fixed by PR97