community.general.yarn throws errors due to --non-interactive and --production args

[jeffbyrnes]

Summary

Similar to #4661, the community.general.yarn runs into a YN0050 error with Yarn stable, aka Yarn 2, with two flags it uses:

• --non-interactive - this is always applied, and thus every run against Yarn stable errors
• --production - this is controlled by an identically-named Ansible module parameter

The latter defaults to false, but some documentation should probably be added to clarify it only works for Yarn Classic.

The former, however, just totally breaks this module from working:

fatal: [host]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "/usr/bin/yarn install --non-interactive", "msg": "", "rc": 1, "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "➤ YN0050: The --non-interactive option is deprecated\n", "stdout_lines": ["➤ YN0050: The --non-interactive option is deprecated"]}

Issue Type

Bug Report

Component Name

yarn

Ansible Version

$ ansible --version
ansible [core 2.18.1]
  config file = /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/.venv/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.13.2 (main, Feb  4 2025, 14:51:09) [Clang 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.6)] (/Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/.venv/bin/python3.13)
  jinja version = 3.1.5
  libyaml = True

Community.general Version

$ ansible-galaxy collection list community.general

# /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections
Collection        Version
----------------- -------
community.general 10.4.0

# /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/11.3.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible_collections
Collection        Version
----------------- -------
community.general 10.4.0

Configuration

$ ansible-config dump --only-changed
CONFIG_FILE() = /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible.cfg
EDITOR(env: EDITOR) = code -w

GALAXY_SERVERS:

OS / Environment

Ubuntu 20.04.6

Steps to Reproduce

    - name: Install Yarn dependencies
      community.general.yarn:
        path: /home/mastodon/boston

ansible-playbook -f 10 -i inventories/production/hosts mastodon.yaml

Expected Results

I expected yarn install to successfully run at the path /home/mastodon/boston.

Actual Results

I’ve stripped out the SSH debug{1,2,3} messages to make this more legible.

ansible-playbook -vvvv -f 10 -i inventories/production/hosts mastodon-repo.yml
ansible-playbook [core 2.18.3]
  config file = /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/11.3.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /opt/homebrew/bin/ansible-playbook
  python version = 3.13.2 (main, Feb  4 2025, 14:51:09) [Clang 16.0.0 (clang-1600.0.26.6)] (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/11.3.0/libexec/bin/python)
  jinja version = 3.1.5
  libyaml = True
Using /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible.cfg as config file
setting up inventory plugins
Loading collection ansible.builtin from
host_list declined parsing /Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/inventories/production/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
script declined parsing /Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/inventories/production/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
auto declined parsing /Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/inventories/production/hosts as it did not pass its verify_file() method
Parsed /Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/inventories/production/hosts inventory source with ini plugin
Loading collection community.general from /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general
Loading callback plugin default of type stdout, v2.0 from /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/11.3.0/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/default.py
Skipping callback 'default', as we already have a stdout callback.
Skipping callback 'minimal', as we already have a stdout callback.
Skipping callback 'oneline', as we already have a stdout callback.

PLAYBOOK: mastodon-repo.yml ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Positional arguments: mastodon-repo.yml
verbosity: 4
connection: ssh
become_method: sudo
tags: ('all',)
inventory: ('/Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/inventories/production/hosts',)
forks: 10
1 plays in mastodon-repo.yml

PLAY [Clone Mastodon repo] ****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
# <snip>

TASK [Install Yarn dependencies] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /Users/jeffbyrnes/dev/better-boston-ansible/mastodon-repo.yml:19
# <snip>
Using module file /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/general/plugins/modules/yarn.py
# <snip>
<hostname> (1, b'\r\n{"cmd": "/usr/bin/yarn install --non-interactive", "rc": 1, "stdout": "\\u27a4 YN0050: The --non-interactive option is deprecated\\n", "stderr": "", "failed": true, "msg": "", "invocation": {"module_args": {"path": "/home/mastodon/boston", "production": false, "state": "present", "ignore_scripts": false, "global": false, "name": null, "version": null, "executable": null, "registry": null}}}\r\n', b"OpenSSH_9.8p1, LibreSSL 3.3.6\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ssh/config\r\ndebug3: /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ssh/config line 1: Including file /Users/jeffbyrnes/.orbstack/ssh/config depth 0\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /Users/jeffbyrnes/.orbstack/ssh/config\r\ndebug1: /Users/jeffbyrnes/.ssh/config line 26: Applying options for *\r\ndebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 21: include /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/* matched no files\r\ndebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 54: Applying options for *\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts' -> '/Users/jeffbyrnes/.ssh/known_hosts'\r\ndebug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts2' -> '/Users/jeffbyrnes/.ssh/known_hosts2'\r\ndebug1: Authenticator provider $SSH_SK_PROVIDER did not resolve; disabling\r\ndebug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master at '/tmp/ansible-ssh-hostname-22-root'\r\ndebug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK\r\ndebug2: mux_client_hello_exchange: master version 4\r\ndebug3: mux_client_forwards: request forwardings: 0 local, 0 remote\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: entering\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_alive: done pid = 41071\r\ndebug3: mux_client_request_session: session request sent\r\ndebug1: mux_client_request_session: master session id: 2\r\ndebug3: mux_client_read_packet_timeout: read header failed: Broken pipe\r\ndebug2: Received exit status from master 1\r\nShared connection to hostname closed.\r\n")
# <snip>
fatal: [hostname]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "cmd": "/usr/bin/yarn install --non-interactive",
    "invocation": {
        "module_args": {
            "executable": null,
            "global": false,
            "ignore_scripts": false,
            "name": null,
            "path": "/home/mastodon/boston",
            "production": false,
            "registry": null,
            "state": "present",
            "version": null
        }
    },
    "msg": "",
    "rc": 1,
    "stderr": "",
    "stderr_lines": [],
    "stdout": "➤ YN0050: The --non-interactive option is deprecated\n",
    "stdout_lines": [
        "➤ YN0050: The --non-interactive option is deprecated"
    ]
}

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
hostname         : ok=1    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0

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[felixfontein]

I guess we need a version check then, and to figure out from which Yarn 2 version on the parameters got deprecated. (Because it apparently did work for Yarn 2 before, so it does work for some Yarn 2 versions and not just for Yarn 1.)

[jeffbyrnes]

@felixfontein yeah, I wasn’t able to determine when this behavior changed, but somewhat recently I think, b/c I do not recall running into it even a month or two ago.