Fixes to the ckan roles, mostly related to the use of the 'become' directive.

ckan/ckan/tasks/ckan-memcache.yml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_sessions', 'ckan_memcache' ]
 
 - block:
-  - name: Install the memcache library
+  - name: Install the memcache library deb package
     apt: pkg=libmemcached10 state=present update_cache=yes cache_valid_time=1800
 
   - name: Configure CKAN so that it uses memcache for its sessions
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
     file: dest=/tmp/{{ ckan_site_id }}/sessions state=absent
     ignore_errors: True
 
-  become: False
   when: ckan_memcache_sessions is defined and ckan_memcache_sessions
   tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_sessions', 'ckan_memcache' ]
 
@@ -40,7 +39,6 @@
       - Restart fetch and gather consumers
     tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_ini', 'ckan_plugins', 'ckan_sessions', 'ckan_memcache' ]
 
-  become: False
   when:
     - ckan_memcache_sessions is defined
     - not ckan_memcache_sessions

ckan/ckan/tasks/ckan-plugins.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 ---
 - block:
     - name: Install some packages dependencies
-      apt: name={{ item }} state=latest update_cache=yes cache_valid_time=3600
-      with_items: '{{ ckan_additional_packages }}'
+      apt: name={{ ckan_additional_packages }} state=latest update_cache=yes cache_valid_time=3600
 
-  become: False
   tags: [ 'ckan', 'geonetwork', 'ckan_plugins', 'ckan_pip_deps' ]
 
 - block:
@@ -14,8 +12,7 @@
       tags: [ 'ckan', 'geonetwork', 'ckan_plugins', 'ckan_pip_deps' ]
 
     - name: Install some python plugins dependencies inside the CKAN virtualenv
-      pip: name={{ item }} virtualenv={{ ckan_virtenv }} state=present
-      with_items: '{{ ckan_pip_dependencies }}'
+      pip: name={{ ckan_pip_dependencies }} virtualenv={{ ckan_virtenv }} state=present
       tags: [ 'ckan', 'geonetwork', 'ckan_plugins', 'ckan_pip_deps' ]
 
     - name: Download the CKAN ckanext-harvest plugin
@@ -57,7 +54,7 @@
       tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_spatial', 'ckan_plugins' ]
 
     - name: Download the CKAN ckanext-geoview plugin
-      pip: name='{{ ckan_geoview_url }}' virtualenv={{ ckan_virtenv }} state={{ ckan_plugins_state }} editable=True
+      pip: name='{{ ckan_geoview_url }}' virtualenv={{ ckan_virtenv }} state={{ ckan_plugins_state }}
       notify: Restart CKAN
       when: ckan_geoview
       tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_geoview', 'ckan_plugins' ]
@@ -190,7 +187,7 @@
       tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_profiler', 'ckan_plugins' ]
 
     - name: Create the profiler plugin log directory
-      become: False
+      become_user: root
       file: dest=/var/log/ckan-profiler owner=www-data group=www-data state=directory
       when: ckan_profiler
       tags: [ 'ckan', 'ckan_profiler', 'ckan_plugins' ]

ckan/ckan/tasks/ckan.yml

@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@
   register: ckan_install
   tags: ckan
 
+- name: Create the CKAN user
+  user: name={{ ckan_shell_user }} home={{ ckan_libdir }} createhome=no shell=/usr/sbin/nologin system=yes  
+  tags: ckan
+
 - name: Configure the CKAN production configuration file but the plugins list
   ini_file: dest={{ ckan_config_file }} section={{ item.section }} option={{ item.option }} value={{ item.value }} state={{ item.state }} backup=yes
   with_items: '{{ ckan_production_ini_opts }}'