Merge pull request #1842 from holta/debian-10-has-no-monit

Ugly workaround so that IIAB installs on Debian 10 Buster (which suddenly removed monit)

roles/monit/tasks/install.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+- name: Install 'monit' package
+  package:
+    name: monit
+    state: present
+  tags:
+    - download
+
+- name: Install chkconfig package (debian-8)
+  package:
+    name: chkconfig
+    state: present
+  when: is_debian and ansible_distribution_major_version == "8"
+  tags:
+    - download
+
+- name: Install /etc/monitrc from template
+  template:
+    backup: yes
+    src: monitrc
+    dest: /etc/monitrc
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+    mode: 0600
+
+# - name: Install config file /etc/monit.d/watchdog from template (NEVER RUNS, WHY?)
+#  template:
+#    src: watchdog
+#    dest: /etc/monit.d/watchdog
+#    owner: root
+#    group: root
+#    force: yes
+#    mode: 0755
+#  register: monit_config
+#  when: False    # IS THIS A BUG ?
+#  until: monit_config | success
+#  retries: 5
+#  delay: 1
+
+#TODO: create systemd script
+- name: Enable 'monit' service (chkconfig monit on)
+  command: chkconfig monit on
+  when: is_debian and ansible_local.local_facts.os_ver == "debian-8"
+
+#- name: Restart monit service
+#  command: service monit restart
+
+- name: Add 'monit' variable values to {{ iiab_ini_file }}
+  ini_file:
+    path: "{{ iiab_ini_file }}"
+    section: monit
+    option: "{{ item.option }}"
+    value: "{{ item.value }}"
+  with_items:
+    - option: name
+      value: Monit
+    - option: description
+      value: '"Monit is a background service monitor which can correct problems, send email, restart services."'
+    - option: enabled
+      value: "{{ monit_enabled }}"

roles/monit/tasks/main.yml

@@ -1,59 +1,14 @@
-- name: Install 'monit' package
+# 2019-07-06: The 'monit' package was suddenly removed from Debian 10.0.0
-  package:
+# "Buster" during the very final days prior to release, as confirmed by the
-    name: monit
+# sudden disappearance of these 2 pages:
-    state: present
+#
-  tags:
+#   https://packages.debian.org/buster/monit
-    - download
+#   https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/monit
+#
+# And yet Raspbian Buster (is_raspbian_10, which confusingly IIAB declares to
+# be is_debian_10 in vars/raspbian-10.yml for now!) still provides 'monit' via
+# apt -- so eliminating "Debian 10+" requires this funky conditional:
 
-- name: Install chkconfig package (debian-8)
+- name: Install 'monit' if monit_install and not Debian 10+
-  package:
+  include_tasks: install.yml
-    name: chkconfig
+  when: monit_install and not ((is_debian and not is_raspbian) and (not is_debian_8) and (not is_debian_9))
-    state: present
-  when: is_debian and ansible_distribution_major_version == "8"
-  tags:
-    - download
-
-- name: Install /etc/monitrc from template
-  template:
-    backup: yes
-    src: monitrc
-    dest: /etc/monitrc
-    owner: root
-    group: root
-    mode: 0600
-
-- name: Install config file /etc/monit.d/watchdog from template (NEVER RUNS, WHY?)
-  template:
-    src: watchdog
-    dest: /etc/monit.d/watchdog
-    owner: root
-    group: root
-    force: yes
-    mode: 0755
-  register: monit_config
-  when: False    # IS THIS A BUG ?
-  until: monit_config | success
-  retries: 5
-  delay: 1
-
-#TODO: create systemd script
-- name: Enable 'monit' service (chkconfig monit on)
-  command: chkconfig monit on
-  when: is_debian and ansible_local.local_facts.os_ver == "debian-8"
-
-#- name: Restart monit service
-#  command: service monit restart
-
-- name: Add 'monit' variable values to {{ iiab_ini_file }}
-  ini_file:
-    path: "{{ iiab_ini_file }}"
-    section: monit
-    option: "{{ item.option }}"
-    value: "{{ item.value }}"
-  with_items:
-    - option: name
-      value: Monit
-    - option: description
-      value: '"Monit is a background service monitor which can correct problems, send email, restart services."'
-    - option: enabled
-      value: "{{ monit_enabled }}"