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+# (c) 2015, Brian Coca  <briancoca+dev@gmail.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+
+# Make coding more python3-ish
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+import os
+
+from ansible.plugins.action import ActionBase
+from ansible.utils.boolean import boolean
+
+class ActionModule(ActionBase):
+
+    def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=dict()):
+
+        src        = self._task.args.get('src', None)
+        dest       = self._task.args.get('dest', None)
+        remote_src = boolean(self._task.args.get('remote_src', 'no'))
+
+        if src is None:
+            return dict(failed=True, msg="src is required")
+        elif remote_src:
+            # everyting is remote, so we just execute the module
+            # without changing any of the module arguments
+            return self._execute_module()
+
+        if self._task._role is not None:
+            src = self._loader.path_dwim_relative(self._task._role._role_path, 'files', src)
+        else:
+            src = self._loader.path_dwim(src)
+
+        # create the remote tmp dir if needed, and put the source file there
+        if tmp is None or "-tmp-" not in tmp:
+            tmp = self._make_tmp_path()
+
+        tmp_src = self._shell.join_path(tmp, os.path.basename(src))
+        self._connection.put_file(src, tmp_src)
+
+        if self._connection_info.become and self._connection_info.become_user != 'root':
+            # FIXME: noop stuff here
+            #if not self.runner.noop_on_check(inject):
+            #    self._remote_chmod('a+r', tmp_src, tmp)
+            self._remote_chmod('a+r', tmp_src, tmp)
+
+        new_module_args = self._task.args.copy()
+        new_module_args.update(
+            dict(
+                src=tmp_src,
+            )
+        )
+
+        return self._execute_module('patch', module_args=new_module_args)