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Bug Overview
Two validation tasks in the role use ansible.builtin.command with delegate_to: localhost, but lack check_mode: no.
As a result, when running the role in --check mode (dry-run), these tasks are silently skipped, causing register to produce empty results.
This leads to false assertion failures, even though the actual environment (e.g. Jinja2 version and collections) is correctly configured.
Expected Behavior
In dry-run (--check) mode, validation tasks should still execute harmless read-only commands, such as:
- ansible --version
- ansible-galaxy collection list
These commands should populate registered variables as expected and allow follow-up assert tasks to evaluate correctly.
Steps to Reproduce the Bug
- Set up a valid environment with:
- A supported version of Jinja2 (e.g. 3.1.6)
- The community.general collection installed (e.g. via ansible-galaxy collection install)
- Run the role with:
ansible-playbook SomePlayBookWithRole.yml --check
- Observe failure in either of:
- Verify Jinja2 version
- Verify collection 'community.general' is installed
- Run again without --check: tasks pass
Environment Details
uname -a
Linux hostname 6.8.0-60-generic #63~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Apr 22 19:00:15 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
ansible --version
ansible [core 2.17.10]
config file = /home/user/Documents/repository/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/home/user/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ansible
ansible collection location = /home/user/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
executable location = /home/user/.local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.10.12 (main, May 27 2025, 17:12:29) [GCC 11.4.0] (/usr/bin/python3)
jinja version = 3.1.6
libyaml = True
pip show Jinja2
Name: Jinja2
Version: 3.1.6
Summary: A very fast and expressive template engine.
Home-page:
Author:
Author-email:
License:
Location: /home/user/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages
Requires: MarkupSafe
Required-by: ansible-core, molecule
ansible-galaxy collection list | grep community.general
community.general 8.5.0
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