tests: pin Candlepin version to latest before Java 17

[ptoscano]

The current way of deploying Candlepin uses an Ansible role that is no more used/supported by the Candlepin project, and thus it is rotting; the recent switch of Candlepin from Java 11 to Java 17 broke with the unmaintained role.

Thus, as very short-term workaround, pin the version of Candlepin to deploy to the commit before the switch to Java 17.

[ptoscano]

[citest]

[ptoscano]

OK, things generally work fine, at least from a Candlepin POV.

The issues that shows up are the same that appeared for #84 too, i.e.:

• old sub-man in Fedora:
  • F36 fix: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-8aa252fd1a
  • F37 fix: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-fff381197f
• wrong D-Bus option for environments in CentOS Stream 8:
  • fix in redhat_subscription: redhat_subscription: fix D-Bus option for environments on CentOS ansible-collections/community.general#6275
• wrong environment selection

Since almost everything is external (either Fedora or the redhat_subscription module in the community.general collection), I'd get this in anyway for now (or at least wait for the Fedora errata), and hopefully at the end of the month we can get a new version of community.general with the fixes there.

[richm]

OK, things generally work fine, at least from a Candlepin POV.

The issues that shows up are the same that appeared for #84 too, i.e.:

* old sub-man in Fedora:
  
  * F36 fix: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-8aa252fd1a
  * F37 fix: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-fff381197f

* wrong D-Bus option for environments in CentOS Stream 8:
  
  * fix in `redhat_subscription`: [redhat_subscription: fix D-Bus option for environments on CentOS ansible-collections/community.general#6275](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/6275)

Is this the issue that affects rhel 8.9 as well?

* wrong environment selection

Since almost everything is external (either Fedora or the redhat_subscription module in the community.general collection), I'd get this in anyway for now (or at least wait for the Fedora errata), and hopefully at the end of the month we can get a new version of community.general with the fixes there.

[ptoscano]

• fix in redhat_subscription: redhat_subscription: fix D-Bus option for environments on CentOS ansible-collections/community.general#6275

Is this the issue that affects rhel 8.9 as well?

No, the above issue affects only CentOS Stream 8; the failure of RHEL 8.9 is the same for every OS, and it's...

• wrong environment selection

... this.

[richm]

• fix in redhat_subscription: redhat_subscription: fix D-Bus option for environments on CentOS ansible-collections/community.general#6275

Is this the issue that affects rhel 8.9 as well?

No, the above issue affects only CentOS Stream 8; the failure of RHEL 8.9 is the same for every OS, and it's...

• wrong environment selection

... this.

Every OS except rhel 9.3?

[ptoscano]

• fix in redhat_subscription: redhat_subscription: fix D-Bus option for environments on CentOS ansible-collections/community.general#6275

Is this the issue that affects rhel 8.9 as well?

No, the above issue affects only CentOS Stream 8; the failure of RHEL 8.9 is the same for every OS, and it's...

• wrong environment selection

... this.

Every OS except rhel 9.3?

No, including, so likely a single change would probably fix tests_environments on all the OSes (unless they are affected by other issues already, like all the Fedora versions currently).

[richm]

The weekly ci job for this role will run in a few days - we'll see if some of the issues have been fixed by then