Single Role: be sure to convert version numbers to ints

Also rework the flattening of lists.

Author: Bill Meek

Docker/centos:8.Dockerfile

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream
 ARG NOBUILD=0
+LABEL EOL="31 Dec 2021"
 LABEL DERIVEDFROM="RHEL 8 Public Upstream Development Branch"
-RUN sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-* \
+RUN sed -i 's/^mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-* \
     && sed -i 's|#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org|baseurl=http://vault.centos.org|g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-* \
     && dnf makecache \
     && dnf --assumeyes install epel-release \
@@ -13,19 +14,19 @@ RUN sed -i 's/mirrorlist/#mirrorlist/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-* \
 
 WORKDIR /root/source/ansible
 COPY . ./
-RUN ./mythtv.yml --limit=localhost --extra-vars='{"venv_active": true}' --extra-vars='{"use_old_roles": false}'
-
-WORKDIR /root/source
-RUN git clone https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git
-
-# buld fails because FFmpeg can't find libiec61883 (even though it and
-# libiec61883-devel are installed
-WORKDIR /root/source/mythtv
-
-RUN if [ "${NOBUILD}" -eq 1 ]; then \
-        echo "Not doing a build." ;\
-    else \
-        git checkout fixes/35 \
-        && cmake --preset qt5 \
-        && VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local/dist cmake --build build-qt5 ;\
-    fi
+#  RUN ./mythtv.yml --limit=localhost --extra-vars='{"venv_active": true}' --extra-vars='{"use_old_roles": false}'
+#  
+#  WORKDIR /root/source
+#  RUN git clone https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git
+#  
+#  # buld fails because FFmpeg can't find libiec61883 (even though it and
+#  # libiec61883-devel are installed
+#  WORKDIR /root/source/mythtv
+#  
+#  RUN if [ "${NOBUILD}" -eq 1 ]; then \
+#          echo "Not doing a build." ;\
+#      else \
+#          git checkout fixes/35 \
+#          && cmake --preset qt5 \
+#          && VIRTUAL_ENV=/usr/local/dist cmake --build build-qt5 ;\
+#      fi

roles/mythtv/tasks/main.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   set_fact:
     sr_pkgmgr: '{{ ansible_pkg_mgr }}'
     sr_distro: '{{ ansible_distribution | regex_replace("[/ ]", "_") | lower }}'
-    sr_versno: '{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}'
+    sr_versno: '{{ ansible_distribution_major_version | int }}'
     sr_dir:    '{{ playbook_dir }}/roles/mythtv'
 
 - name: Set version to rolling for Archlinux and SUSE Tumbleweed
@@ -21,9 +21,7 @@
 - name: If a Debian version is not numeric, use its codename as a version
   set_fact:
     sr_versno: '{{ ansible_distribution_release | lower }}'
-  when:
-    - ansible_distribution == 'Debian'
-    - ansible_distribution_major_version | type_debug != "int"
+  when: sr_distro == 'debian' and (sr_versno == 0)
 
 - name: See if special setup tasks exist
   stat:
@@ -74,13 +72,17 @@
       - '{{ qt6_packages }}'
   when: qt6 is defined and qt6 and qt6_packages is defined
 
+- name: Flatten package lists
+  set_fact:
+    packages: '{{ packages | flatten() }}'
+
 - name: Final package list
   debug:
-    var: lookup('flattened', packages)
+    msg: 'FPL={{ packages }}'
 
 - name: Install the packages
   package:
-    name: "{{ lookup('flattened', packages) }}"
+    name: '{{ packages }}'
 
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