Hello,

This might be a dummy question but I'm stuck with role dependency 
definition in ansible.

I'd like to use a role defined in a git repository as a dependency for 
another role. In the doc <http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_roles.html> I 
can see that:

Role dependencies can also be installed from source control repos or tar 
> files, using a comma separated format of path, an optional version (tag, 
> commit, branch etc) and optional friendly role name (an attempt is made to 
> derive a role name from the repo name or archive filename):
>
> ---
> dependencies:
> - { role: 'git+http://git.example.com/repos/role-foo,v1.1,foo' }
> - { role: '/path/to/tar/file.tgz,,friendly-name' }
>
>
I tried with a public github repo, let say something 
like https://github.com/myuser/my-role-test.git

I put this in the meta/main.yml file:

dependencies:
>
>   - { role: 'git+https://github.com/myuser
> /my-role-test.git,master,test-dep' }
>
>
Then I run my playbook, and I get the following error:

ERROR: cannot find role in 
> /var/lib/awx/projects/_1__myproject/roles/git+https:/github.com/myuser/test.git,master,test-dep
>  
> or 
> /var/lib/awx/projects/_1__myproject/git+https:/github.com/myuser/test.git,master,test-dep
>  
> or /etc/ansible/roles/git+https:/github.com/myuser
> /test.git,master,test-dep


(Here you can guess I'm using tower. But for the purpose of this issue, I'm 
trying to run the playbook directly with ansible-playbook command.)

When I see this error message, I guess that the git url is just parsed like 
a directory structure. I've tried several url format like git@, git+ssh://, 
ssh://... No success.

So I had a look at ansible source code to figure out how the role value was 
parsed (play.py). I'm not a python expert however I can just see 
a _get_role_path method dealing exclusively with filesystem path stuff.

Is this "role dependency from git repo" feature real?

On the other side I can see this recent thread 
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/ansible-project/TawjChwaV08/3p6Zv24rMWgJ>
 
with famous people here talking about this feature...

I'm probably missing something. Can someone help?

Thank you!

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