From 6e47923b6536a17bdf38336f7c244426f5fc482a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmed Abdelhalim <pm@a14m.dev>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:02:52 +0100
Subject: Install pip

After giving up on fixing the usage of ansible.builtin.pip on live
environment.
I ended up having to setup pip manually and using it with ansible
commands to setup ansible-core on live environment to run the
configuration playbook

No idea why it started failing on the first place, was working 2 days
ago!!!
---
 roles/configure/tasks/install-ansible.yml   | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 roles/configure/tasks/install-archlinux.yml |  8 -------
 roles/configure/tasks/install-debian.yml    |  7 ------
 roles/configure/tasks/main.yml              | 20 ++++------------
 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 roles/configure/tasks/install-ansible.yml
 delete mode 100644 roles/configure/tasks/install-archlinux.yml
 delete mode 100644 roles/configure/tasks/install-debian.yml

(limited to 'roles/configure')

diff --git a/roles/configure/tasks/install-ansible.yml b/roles/configure/tasks/install-ansible.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c9894a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/configure/tasks/install-ansible.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+---
+- name: "Ensure ansible dependencies are installed on live environment"
+  community.general.pacman:
+    name:
+      - "python3"
+      - "python-packaging"
+    state: present
+  when: ansible_os_family == "Archlinux"
+
+- name: "Ensure ansible dependencies are installed on live environment"
+  ansible.builtin.apt:
+    pkg:
+      - "python3"
+      - "python3-packaging"
+    state: "present"
+  when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
+
+# Workaround ansible.builtin.pip not working on live environment,
+# after giving up on fixing it, now we install pip manually and use the commands to setup ansible
+- name: "Download get-pip.py"
+  ansible.builtin.get_url:
+    url: "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py"
+    dest: "/tmp/get-pip.py"
+    mode: "0644"
+
+- name: "Bootstrap pip with break-system-packages"
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: "python3 /tmp/get-pip.py --break-system-packages --force-reinstall --root-user-action=ignore"
+  changed_when: true
+
+- name: "Install ansible-core on live environment"
+  # Can't install ansible-core using package manager
+  # This resolve the "ERROR! ansible-galaxy requires resolvelib<1.1.1,>=0.5.3"
+  # where the python-resolvelib was updated but ansible package wasn't in the package managers
+  ansible.builtin.command:
+    cmd: "python3 -m pip install ansible-core>=2.18 --break-system-packages --root-user-action=ignore"
+  changed_when: true
diff --git a/roles/configure/tasks/install-archlinux.yml b/roles/configure/tasks/install-archlinux.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d2f777f..0000000
--- a/roles/configure/tasks/install-archlinux.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
----
-- name: "Ensure ansible dependencies are installed on live environment"
-  community.general.pacman:
-    name:
-      - "python3"
-      - "python-pip"
-    state: present
-    update_cache: true
diff --git a/roles/configure/tasks/install-debian.yml b/roles/configure/tasks/install-debian.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index d9dc732..0000000
--- a/roles/configure/tasks/install-debian.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-- name: "Ensure ansible dependencies are installed on live environment"
-  ansible.builtin.apt:
-    state: "present"
-    pkg:
-      - "python3"
-      - "python3-pip"
diff --git a/roles/configure/tasks/main.yml b/roles/configure/tasks/main.yml
index 399017a..16c6d38 100644
--- a/roles/configure/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/configure/tasks/main.yml
@@ -3,22 +3,10 @@
   ansible.builtin.set_fact:
     configure_chroot_path: "{{ partition_root.mount_path }}"
 
-- name: "Install archlinux"
-  ansible.builtin.include_tasks: "install-archlinux.yml"
-  when: ansible_os_family == "Archlinux"
-
-- name: "Install debian"
-  ansible.builtin.include_tasks: "install-debian.yml"
-  when: ansible_os_family == "Debian"
-
-- name: "Install ansible-core on live environment"
-  # Can't install ansible-core using package manager
-  # This resolve the "ERROR! ansible-galaxy requires resolvelib<1.1.1,>=0.5.3"
-  # where the python-resolvelib was updated but ansible package wasn't in the package managers
-  ansible.builtin.pip:
-    name: "ansible-core>=2.18"
-    state: "present"
-    break_system_packages: true
+# After giving up on fixing the ansible.builtin.pip directly
+# Workaround ansible install not working without reinstalling and configuring pip externally
+- name: "Install ansible"
+  ansible.builtin.include_tasks: "install-ansible.yml"
 
 - name: "Run distro-configure playbooks on bootstrapped distro"
   when: configure_playbook_dir is defined
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