Having subroles in a role about ansible HOT 7 CLOSED

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While include_role and import_role do accept paths, anything else like ansible-galaxy list, ansible-doc -t role is not going to recognize roles within roles, so I think it would be better to put them all in the normal roles path. Subroles is not an ansible concept.

That said,

collections/
└── ansible_collections
    └── ns
        └── col
            └── roles
                └── common
                    ├── role_a
                    ├── role_b
                    └── tasks
                        └── main.yml

could be used in a play like this:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - ns.col.common
    - ns.col.common.role_a

If you are trying to use collections, you'll need to update ansible to a more recent version for that to work.

The only difference for standalone roles, you'd replace . with / for role subdirs, e.g. common/role_a.

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Okay I understand but we used to do so and it worked previously to give you more context maybe that will help you to find the issue source

This is my structure
ansible_collections
└── system
├──galaxy.yml
└── roles
├── roles1
└── roles2

Each role as a task.yml file inside and this is my galaxy.yml file :

namespace: i252
name: system 
version: 2.0.0

Do you know why is not working?

from ansible.

Okay I understand but we used to do so and it worked previously to give you more context maybe that will help you to find the issue source

This is my structure
ansible_collections
└── system
├──galaxy.yml
└── roles
├── roles1
└── roles2

Each role as a task.yml file inside and this is my galaxy.yml file :

namespace: i252
name: system
version: 2.0.0
Do you know why is not working?

from ansible.

Okay I understand but we used to do so and it worked previously to give you more context maybe that will help you to find the issue source

This is my structure
ansible_collections
└── system
├──galaxy.yml
└── roles
├── roles1
└── roles2

Each role as a task.yml file inside and this is my galaxy.yml file :

namespace: i252
name: system
version: 2.0.0
Do you know why is not working?

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Can you check the comment below for more informations.

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@ElieObadia From the information given, I think this behavior should not have changed, and you can achieve what you want through available features. I can take another look if you can share a play and filestructure (verbatim, please) that reproduces the problem and used to work. If I can reproduce the issue then I can bisect which commit introduced the change in behavior.

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