From 3b700f0998268253fa11f8942979afb13baabacf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexei Znamensky <103110+russoz@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:10:10 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] yum_versionlock: remove to_native() around command output
 (#11093)

* yum_versionlock: remove redundant use of to_native() around command output

* reformat

* add changelog frag
---
 changelogs/fragments/11093-yum-versionlock-to-native.yml | 2 ++
 plugins/modules/yum_versionlock.py                       | 9 +++------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 changelogs/fragments/11093-yum-versionlock-to-native.yml

diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/11093-yum-versionlock-to-native.yml b/changelogs/fragments/11093-yum-versionlock-to-native.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8509e5f0a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/11093-yum-versionlock-to-native.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - yum_versionlock - remove redundant conversion to unicode in command output (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/11093).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/yum_versionlock.py b/plugins/modules/yum_versionlock.py
index dbf2229f44..1cb1539136 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/yum_versionlock.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/yum_versionlock.py
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ state:
 
 import re
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from fnmatch import fnmatch
 
 # on DNF-based distros, yum is a symlink to dnf, so we try to handle their different entry formats.
@@ -114,10 +113,8 @@ class YumVersionLock:
         if rc == 0:
             return out
         elif rc == 1 and "o such command:" in err:
-            self.module.fail_json(
-                msg=f"Error: Please install rpm package yum-plugin-versionlock : {to_native(err)}{to_native(out)}"
-            )
-        self.module.fail_json(msg=f"Error: {to_native(err)}{to_native(out)}")
+            self.module.fail_json(msg=f"Error: Please install rpm package yum-plugin-versionlock : {err}{out}")
+        self.module.fail_json(msg=f"Error: {err}{out}")
 
     def ensure_state(self, packages, command):
         """Ensure packages state"""
@@ -127,7 +124,7 @@ class YumVersionLock:
             self.module.fail_json(msg=out)
         if rc == 0:
             return True
-        self.module.fail_json(msg=f"Error: {to_native(err)}{to_native(out)}")
+        self.module.fail_json(msg=f"Error: {err}{out}")
 
 
 def match(entry, name):