[MacPorts] #63263: py-ansible-base 2.10.11: Path replacement breaks custom facts

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#63263: py-ansible-base 2.10.11: Path replacement breaks custom facts
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  Reporter:  F30              |      Owner:  adfernandes
      Type:  defect           |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal           |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports            |    Version:
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
      Port:  py-ansible-base  |
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Comment (by mpallante):

 Replying to [comment:3 adfernandes]:

 > Anyone else have thoughts about this?

 This changes in Ansible configuration is simply wrong because it breaks
 the usual Ansible behaviour.

 As you can see from its documentation
 (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/setup_module.html),
 the `setup` module expects default value of `fact_path` to be
 `/etc/ansible/facts.d` and must be a directory on the **remote** host in
 which Ansible go and search files and scripts that enrich the variables
 with information that need to be collected on the remote host. So,
 everything is referred to the remote host.

 I just wasted a full day trying to solve an issue with a playbook that
 configures a backup server, which at the end I tracked down to be due to
 this misconfigured path.

 I also couldn't use the workarounds cited by [comment:1 F30] because our
 playbook uses directly the `setup` module or indirectly by importing 3rd
 parts roles which in turn use the `setup` module.

 I can also confirm py-ansible-core 2.11.6 has the same wrong behaviour.

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