This changeset addresses the issue reported here:
ansible/ansible-modules-core#1765
The yum module (at least) includes its task results as strings, rather than
dicts, and the code this changeset replaces assumed that in that instance the
task was skipped. The updated behaviour assumes that the task has been
skipped only if:
* results exist, and
* all results are dicts that include a truthy skipped value
* better fix for arch version detection
fixes #15696
* be extra safe about tracebacks in facts.py
* add comments to explain the setup
* make allowempty more conservative, ignore file content
* wrap function call in try/except
* should never happen, but if it happens the bug should be distribtion=N/A and not a traceback
* When var name is the same as var content, try to template it before reporting that var is not defined.
Add asserts in test_var_blending to check this special corner case.
* Fix integration tests when using debug with list or dict.
It wasn't doing anything that a literal couldn't do and used
unicode_escape which only understands latin1 (The author of the code
seems to have thought it took an encoding argument but it looks like
that was silently ignored.)
This was reinitialized every time we forked before so we weren't sharing
the same Locks. It also was not accounting for modules which were
directly invoked by an action plugin instead of going through the
strategy plguins.
* add tests for centos6, rhel6 and rhel7
* gen_distribution_version_testcase with python2.6
* remove unused imports
* fix redhat/vmware/... parsing
* add centos7 test case
* Make ziploader's ansible and ansible.module_utils libraries into
namespace packages.
* Move __version__ and __author__ from ansible/__init__ to
ansible/release.py. This is because namespace packages only load one
__init__.py. If that is not the __init__.py with the author and
version info then those won't be available.
* In ziplaoder, move the version ito ANSIBLE_CONSTANTS.
* Change PluginLoader to properly construct the path to the plugins even
when namespace packages are present.
* split code as separate class
* split different distributions as individual functions
* keep program logic mostly identical (for now)
* increase readability, reduce complexity/indentation
* make future testing/refactoring easier
* step towards making distribution parsing independent of the Facts class
* add some changes to make facts.py python3 parsable
* Add shared functionality to return list of security group IDs from list of security group names - this functionality can be used by nearly all ec2 modules
* Improved doc string for get_ec2_security_group_ids_from_names function
