Upgrade to Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.5 fails with an error `Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package ansible-tower-venv-ansible-3.8.5-2.el7at.x86_64` on RHEL7

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Issue

  • Ansible Tower fails when trying to install ansible-tower-venv-ansible RPM package:

    [...SNIP...]
    TASK [packages_el : Install the Tower RPM.]                                                              
    **********************************************************************************************************************************
    fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": true, "changes": {"installed": ["ansible-tower = 3.8.5"], "updated": []}, "msg": "Error in PREIN scriptlet in  rpm package ansible-tower-venv-ansible-3.8.5-2.el7at.x86_64\nansible-tower-venv-ansible-3.8.4-1.el7at.x86_64 was  supposed to be removed  but is not!\n"
    [...SNIP...]
    

Environment

  • Red Hat® Ansible Tower 3.8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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