cryptography gets not detected

[mowgli]

SUMMARY

I use gentoo which has the following versions:

~> LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 ansible -m community.general.python_requirements_info -c local localhost -a dependencies=cryptography
[WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available
localhost | SUCCESS => {
    "changed": false,
    "mismatched": {},
    "not_found": [],
    "python": "/usr/bin/python3.11",
    "python_system_path": [
        "/tmp/root/ansible_community.general.python_requirements_info_payload_c150g50d/ansible_community.general.python_requirements_info_payload.zip",
        "/usr/lib/python311.zip",
        "/usr/lib/python3.11",
        "/usr/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload",
        "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages"
    ],
    "python_version": "3.11.8 (main, Feb 23 2024, 08:06:35) [GCC 13.2.1 20240113]",
    "python_version_info": {
        "major": 3,
        "micro": 8,
        "minor": 11,
        "releaselevel": "final",
        "serial": 0
    },
    "valid": {
        "cryptography": {
            "desired": null,
            "installed": "42.0.4"
        }
    }
}

So, you see, cryptography with a way higher version then 1.2.3 is installed.

But when I run the following task:

- name: Create Key
  openssl_privatekey:
    path: "{{ exim_config_dir }}/exim.key"
    mode: 0640
    owner: "{{ exim_user }}"
    group: "{{ exim_group }}"

it fails with the following error:

fatal: [chua]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Cannot detect the required Python library cryptography (>= 1.2.3)"}

Side note: I run that all on the local machine. The playbook is done via ansible-pull.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

openssl_privatekey

ANSIBLE VERSION

ERROR: Ansible requires the locale encoding to be UTF-8; Detected ISO8859-1.

CONFIGURATION

ERROR: Ansible requires the locale encoding to be UTF-8; Detected ISO8859-1.

OS / ENVIRONMENT

See above

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

See above

See above

EXPECTED RESULTS

It should work

ACTUAL RESULTS

It produces an error

See above

[mowgli]

It clearifies a bit...

Gentoo often has more than one python installed and configures the default via /etc/python-exec/python-exec.conf.

On the current system, the default ist python3.11 but there is a version python3.12 installed. Ansible does not care about the default and use the incomplete python3.12.

[felixfontein]

If ansible uses the wrong Python, you have to explicitly tell it to use the rigth one.

cryptography needs to be available to the Python environment used to execute the community.crypto modules.

[mowgli]

Yea, I believe you are right. It is not a bug here.

Maybe it helps other users hitting the same bug.