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Bug 2172129

Summary:	Newly installed Satellite 6.13 shows broken symlink for .ansible.cfg inside /usr/share/foreman-proxy/ directory
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Sayan Das <saydas>
Component:	Ansible - Configuration Management	Assignee:	satellite6-bugs <satellite6-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Satellite QE Team <sat-qe-bz-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.13.0	CC:	ahumbe, aruzicka, nalfassi, zuansorg
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Description Sayan Das 2023-02-21 14:57:14 UTC

Description of problem:

On a freshly installed Satellite 6.13, /etc/foreman-proxy/ansible.cfg is not longer present and we still get to see a broken link for /usr/share/foreman-proxy/.ansible.cfg file.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

satellite-6.13.0-4.el8sat.noarch
rubygem-smart_proxy_ansible-3.5.0-1.el8sat.noarch


How reproducible:

Always


Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install Satellite 6.13
2. Check inside /usr/share/foreman-proxy/ using "ls -la"


Actual results:

# ll /usr/share/foreman-proxy/ -a | grep "\.ansi"
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root          root   30 Nov 11 17:42 .ansible -> /var/lib/foreman-proxy/ansible
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root          root   30 Nov 11 17:42 .ansible.cfg -> /etc/foreman-proxy/ansible.cfg
lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root          root   37 Nov 11 17:42 .ansible_galaxy -> /var/lib/foreman-proxy/ansible_galaxy

# ls -ld /var/lib/foreman-proxy/ansible /etc/foreman-proxy/ansible.cfg /var/lib/foreman-proxy/ansible_galaxy
ls: cannot access '/etc/foreman-proxy/ansible.cfg': No such file or directory
drwxr-xr-x. 2 foreman-proxy foreman-proxy 6 Nov 11 17:42 /var/lib/foreman-proxy/ansible
drwxr-xr-x. 2 foreman-proxy foreman-proxy 6 Nov 11 17:42 /var/lib/foreman-proxy/ansible_galaxy



Expected results:

* No such broken links should be present in the product. 


Additional info:

Comment 1 Brad Buckingham 2023-02-23 15:26:09 UTC

Is there any user impact or broken workflows as a result of this behavior?

Comment 2 Sayan Das 2023-02-23 15:33:02 UTC

(In reply to Brad Buckingham from comment #1)
> Is there any user impact or broken workflows as a result of this behavior?

Not at all as long as someone does not decide to put an ansible.cfg manually inside the target location, which then will cause issues. 

I am aware of a discussion here in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2171849#c2 about it as well.

Comment 3 Zuzana Lena Ansorgova 2023-03-08 14:44:37 UTC

The question is how Ansible behaves if it finds a broken link. According to Ansible docs, it searches for ~/.ansible.cfg and if not found, then it goes for /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg.
The ~/.ansible.cfg file is technically there, so is it possible that Ansible ignores /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg because it finds the broken link?

IMHO, the test case used to verify https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1786358#c16 only tested that the modification in the cfg is persistent, not that it's applied during Ansible execution in Satellite.

Comment 4 Zuzana Lena Ansorgova 2023-03-08 14:45:27 UTC

I'm asking about the broken link because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2171849

Comment 5 Adam Ruzicka 2023-03-08 15:24:19 UTC

Broken links are ignored, in 2171849 they don't have a broken link.

Comment 6 Brad Buckingham 2024-03-21 21:07:37 UTC

Upon review of our valid but aging backlog the Satellite Team has concluded that this Bugzilla does not meet the criteria for a resolution in the near term, and are planning to close in a month. This message may be a repeat of a previous update and the bug is again being considered to be closed. If you have any concerns about this, please contact your Red Hat Account team.  Thank you.

Comment 7 Brad Buckingham 2024-05-13 10:04:06 UTC

Thank you for your interest in Red Hat Satellite. We have evaluated this request, and while we recognize that it is a valid request, we do not expect this to be implemented in the product in the foreseeable future. This is due to other priorities for the product, and not a reflection on the request itself. We are therefore closing this out as WONTFIX. If you have any concerns about this feel free to contact your Red Hat Account Team. Thank you.