commit 6a417012022f38534ae5a5803062639446c9fa81
Author: Bernd Finger <bfinger@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 16 19:26:58 2020 +0200

    solve issue #98 (basic reboot requirement detection for RHEL 8.0)

diff --git a/tasks/RedHat/installation.yml b/tasks/RedHat/installation.yml
index 0a8e1c2..502e94f 100644
--- a/tasks/RedHat/installation.yml
+++ b/tasks/RedHat/installation.yml
@@ -138,9 +138,19 @@
   when:
     - ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
     - ansible_distribution_major_version == '8'
+    - ansible_distribution_version != '8.0'
+
+- set_fact:
+    needs_restarting_command: "_IKRNL=$(rpm -q --last kernel | awk 'NR==1{sub(/kernel-/,\"\"); print $1}'); _CKRNL=$(uname -r); if [ ${_IKRNL} != ${_CKRNL} ]; then exit 1; else exit 0; fi"
+  when:
+    - ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'
+    - ansible_distribution_version == '8.0'
+
+- debug:
+    var: needs_restarting_command
 
 - name: Check if system needs to be restarted
-  command: "{{ needs_restarting_command }}"
+  shell: "{{ needs_restarting_command }}"
   register: needs_restarting_result
   ignore_errors: true
   changed_when: false
@@ -148,6 +158,9 @@
     warn: false
   check_mode: false
 
+- debug:
+    var: needs_restarting_result
+
 - name: Call Reboot handler if necessary
   command: /bin/true
   notify: "Reboot handler"