When I followed these instructions, the generated path was 'rpm-build', not 'rpmbuild'. My rpm-build version is rpm-build-4.11.1-25.el7.x86_64 if that's relevant. Maybe this is 'just me', but wanted to feed back in case it's the same for everyone.
The full error was
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ERROR: test_task_executor_execute (units.executor.test_task_executor.TestTaskExecutor)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/mg/src/ansible/test/units/executor/test_task_executor.py", line 252, in test_task_executor_execute
mock_action.run.return_value = dict(ansible_facts=dict())
File "/home/mg/src/ansible/lib/ansible/executor/task_executor.py", line 317, in _execute
if self._task.async > 0:
TypeError: unorderable types: MagicMock() > int()
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Experiments show that Python 2 MagicMock() > 0 is true, so I'm setting
the async property on mock_task to 1. (If I set it to 0, the test fails
anyway.)
Required some rewiring in inventory code to make sure we're using
the DataLoader class for some data file operations, which makes mocking
them much easier.
Also identified two corner cases not currently handled by the code, related
to inventory variable sources and which one "wins". Also noticed we weren't
properly merging variables from multiple group/host_var file locations
(inventory directory vs. playbook directory locations) so fixed as well.
This was commented out earlier because of the lack of interprocess
locking and prepare_writeable_dir in v2.
The locking was not needed: it could only protect against other siblings
of this process (since they were all locking a temporary file that was
opened in the parent), and those would be running as the same user and
with the same umask. Also, os.makedirs() tolerates intermediate paths
being created by other processes. For any other kind of error, both
locking and non-locking code paths would fail in the same way.
So all we really need to do is make sure we have write permissions.
(We also move the cp_dir handling code to where we actually set the
ControlPath ourselves; if the user has set it via ssh_*args already,
we don't need to bother.)
