UnixPB: Ansible request for JDK install role

[sxa]

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• Bug in ansible playbook

Details:
If there are multiple matches in /usr/lib/jvm then ansible fails to create the appropriate symbolic link e.g.

root@test-marist-ubuntu1804-s390x-3:/usr/lib/jvm# ls -ld /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11*
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Aug 16 07:53 /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.16.1+1
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 19 20:30 /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.16+8
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jul 15  2020 /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.8+10

Results in fatal: [test-marist-ubuntu1804-s390x-3]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "src file does not exist, use \"force=yes\" if you really want to create the link: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.16.1+1\n/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.16+8\n/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.8+10", "path": "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11", "src": "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.16.1+1\n/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.16+8\n/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11.0.8+10"}

[Haroon-Khel]

related #2624

[Haroon-Khel]

Relevant ansible file https://github.com/adoptium/infrastructure/blob/master/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/adoptopenjdk_install/tasks/main.yml

[lumuchris256]

hi @Haroon-Khel @smlambert i would like to take up this issue

[Haroon-Khel]

Hi @lumuchris256 I have assigned it to you

[lumuchris256]

@Haroon-Khel according to issue #2624 , what is the expected outcome of the issue?

[Haroon-Khel]

Conversation continued in slack

[Haroon-Khel]

At

infrastructure/ansible/playbooks/AdoptOpenJDK_Unix_Playbook/roles/adoptopenjdk_install/tasks/main.yml

Line 117 in 95fb017

(between the two tasks) there should be a task which checks for a jdk without a symlink (perhaps the task can search for {{ path }}.*) and removes it if present then installs the jdk completely

Another solution would be to check if a non symlinked jdk exists and then tries to symlink it, but this might get long. And it would be better to install a newer jdk anyway

[Haroon-Khel]

So something along the lines of

- name: Check if jdk-{{ jdk_version }} binary is present but not symlinked
  shell: ls -ld {{ path }}.* >/dev/null 2>&1
  failed_when: false
  register: adoptopenjdk_installed_not_symlinked
  changed_when: false
  when: adoptopenjdk_installed.rc != 0
  tags:
    - adoptopenjdk_install
    - skip_ansible_lint

- name: Remove non symlinked jdk-{{ jdk_version }} binary
   file:
       path: {{ path }}.*
       state: absent
    when: 
         - adoptopenjdk_installed_not_symlinked.rc == 0
         - adoptopenjdk_installed.rc != 0
  tags:
    - adoptopenjdk_install
    - skip_ansible_lint

It should only remove the non linked binary if it doesnt detect a symlink. If it does detect a symlink then this task should not run (it will delete the binary that is linked which we dont want)