zabbix_repo_package issue in Configuring the weight for APT task

[solick]

SUMMARY

When running agent role, an error occurs when checking zabbix_repo_package variable:

Conditional result (True) was derived from value of type 'str' at '/Users/XXX/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/roles/zabbix_agent/defaults/main.yml:10:23'. Conditionals must have a boolean result.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

zabbix_repo

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible [core 2.19.3]
  config file = /Users/XXX/Development/Ansible/lmc-ansible/ansible.cfg
  configured module search path = ['/Users/XXX/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
  ansible python module location = /opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/12.1.0_1/libexec/lib/python3.13/site-packages/ansible
  ansible collection location = /Users/XXX/.ansible/collections:/usr/share/ansible/collections
  executable location = /opt/homebrew/bin/ansible
  python version = 3.13.9 (main, Oct 14 2025, 13:52:31) [Clang 17.0.0 (clang-1700.0.13.3)] (/opt/homebrew/Cellar/ansible/12.1.0_1/libexec/bin/python)
  jinja version = 3.1.6
  pyyaml version = 6.0.3 (with libyaml v0.2.5)

CONFIGURATION

 ALLOW_BROKEN_CONDITIONALS = True (needed as workaround for the bug)

OS / ENVIRONMENT / Zabbix Version

MacOS 26.1, Zabbix 6.0

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

EXPECTED RESULTS

expected the role to run without error

ACTUAL RESULTS

TASK [community.zabbix.zabbix_repo : Debian | Configuring the weight for APT] **************************************************************************
task path: /Users/XXX/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/roles/zabbix_repo/tasks/Debian.yml:75
[ERROR]: Task failed: Conditional result (True) was derived from value of type 'str' at '/Users/XXX/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/roles/zabbix_agent/defaults/main.yml:10:23'. Conditionals must have a boolean result.

Task failed.
Origin: /Users/XXX/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/roles/zabbix_repo/tasks/Debian.yml:75:3

73     - install
74
75 - name: "Debian | Configuring the weight for APT"
     ^ column 3

<<< caused by >>>

Conditional result (True) was derived from value of type 'str' at '/Users/XXX/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/roles/zabbix_agent/defaults/main.yml:10:23'. Conditionals must have a boolean result.
Origin: /Users/XXX/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/roles/zabbix_repo/tasks/Debian.yml:86:7

84   when:
85     - zabbix_repo_package is defined
86     - zabbix_repo_package
         ^ column 7

Broken conditionals can be temporarily allowed with the `ALLOW_BROKEN_CONDITIONALS` configuration option.

fatal: [XXX]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Task failed: Conditional result (True) was derived from value of type 'str' at '/Users/XXX/.ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/roles/zabbix_agent/defaults/main.yml:10:23'. Conditionals must have a boolean result."

[dbileewicz]

It's because installed from ansible-galaxy is missing: | length > 0 in this line.

It should be:

- name: "Debian | Configuring the weight for APT"
  ansible.builtin.copy:
    dest: "/etc/apt/preferences.d/{{ zabbix_repo_package }}"
    content: |
      Package: {{ zabbix_repo_package }}
      Pin: origin repo.zabbix.com
      Pin-Priority: {{ zabbix_repo_apt_priority }}
    owner: root
    mode: "0644"
  when:
    - zabbix_repo_package is defined
    - zabbix_repo_package | length > 0
  become: true
  tags:
    - install

[solick]

It's because installed from ansible-galaxy is missing: | length > 0 in this line.

It should be:

- name: "Debian | Configuring the weight for APT"
  ansible.builtin.copy:
    dest: "/etc/apt/preferences.d/{{ zabbix_repo_package }}"
    content: |
      Package: {{ zabbix_repo_package }}
      Pin: origin repo.zabbix.com
      Pin-Priority: {{ zabbix_repo_apt_priority }}
    owner: root
    mode: "0644"
  when:
    - zabbix_repo_package is defined
    - zabbix_repo_package | length > 0
  become: true
  tags:
    - install

Sorry what do you mean. I installed the collection with ansible-galaxy as usual. What is missing exactly?

[dbileewicz]

Content of this file .ansible/collections/ansible_collections/community/zabbix/roles/zabbix_repo/tasks/Debian.yml in section that i mentioned is is different in ansible-gallaxy installed code. Check it’s content against source code from GitHub.

Here is the correct version of this file - https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.zabbix/blob/main/roles/zabbix_repo/tasks/Debian.yml

[tobiasbaehr]

The bug is fixed, but not yet released.

[derekpurdy]

The bug is fixed, but not yet released.

any update on a release to fix this by chance?