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Troubleshooting

Testing in roles uses old files

Collection cache is outdated.

Clear build cache. 

rm -rfv ~/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/r_pufky/srv

Unable to determine context for the following test targets

A controller and a target were not specified when running the test.

Error 
WARNING: Unable to determine context for the following test targets, they will
be run on the target host: {MODULE}, {MODULE}, they will be run on the target
host: {MODULE}, {MODULE}

This is OK for tests that are run on localhost with NO impact on system (e.g. filters).

Only Localhost is Available

Host inventory not detected when running collection tests.

Error 
ansible-playbook roles/hello_motd/tests/playbook/test_hello_motd.yml
...
  [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
  [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note
  that the implicit localhost does not match 'all'

Explicitly specify inventory to use. 

ansible-playbook -i tests/inventory tests/playbook/test_hello_motd.yml

Tip

--ask-become-pass will be needed if sudo used or use GPG key injection.

Fixing GPLv3 License Missing

Community distributions assumes GPLv3.

Explicitly ignore if different license. 

mkdir -p tests/sanity
touch tests/sanity/ignore-{ANSIBLE VERSION}.txt

touch tests/sanity/ignore-2.16.txt

Warning

An ignore file is required for each specific version of ansible.

Tip

Order Matters: if ignores are throwing warnings, check ordering and make sure they are ordered correctly. Proper ignores will not generate warnings.

Info

Only certain ignores are explicitly allowed; others will always throw ansible-lint errors even if ignored.

tests/sanity/ignore-2.16.txt 

plugins/modules/demo_hello.py compile-2.7!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py import-2.7!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py compile-3.6!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py import-3.6!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py compile-3.7!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py import-3.7!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py compile-3.8!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py import-3.8!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py compile-3.9!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py import-3.9!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py compile-3.10!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py import-3.10!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py compile-3.12!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py import-3.12!skip
plugins/modules/demo_hello.py validate-modules:missing-gplv3-license
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