Fedora 35 is:
- `ansible_os_family = 'RedHat'`
- `ansible_distribution_major_version = '35'`
Our RedHat checks against v7/v8 are really for RHEL derivatives (CentOS, Rockylinux,
AlmaLinux), but the same checks (by coincidence) apply for Fedora 35.
The problem is that `'35' > '7'` (comparing these as strings) is
`false`.
This patch makes sure that we always cast
`ansible_distribution_major_version` to an integer.
Fixes https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/1610
Not hardcoding 'CentOS' and using the OS family ('RedHat') instead,
we now behave better on Rockylinux and AlmaLinux, etc.
With that said, we may or may not fully support CentOS/Rockylinux/AlmaLinux v8 yet.
Certain things were improved in
https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/300.
v8 support is discussed here: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/issues/300
Certain things (firewalld?) may still be problematic. This patch does not try to address those.
If the remaining issues are confirmed to be fixed in the future, we can mark v8 as supported.
The goal is to have a single variable which tells us which homeserver
software is in use. Much simpler than having if/elif/elif checks for
variables like (`matrix_synapse_enabled` and `matrix_dendrite_enabled`, etc.)
everywhere.
#1192 lead to the following error for me on Archlinux:
`TASK [matrix-base : Install host dependencies] *******************************************************************************************************************************
fatal: [matrix.***.de]: FAILED! => changed=false
msg: |-
failed to install systemd-timesyncd: error: target not found: systemd-timesyncd`
There is no package called `systemd-timesyncd` on Archlinux. The service is installed with the [`systemd`](https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/systemd/) package itself.
I suggest removing the `systemd-timesyncd` from 2453876eb9/roles/matrix-base/tasks/server_base/setup_archlinux.yml (L7)
Related to https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/pull/963
This also simplifies Prerequisites, which is great.
It'd be nice if we were doing these checks in some optional manner
and reporting them as helpful messages (using
`matrix_playbook_runtime_results`), but that's more complicated.
I'd rather drop these checks completely.
