From 5a66a95bf3185dffa09e889d78bf7502564793ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Grozak <mike.grozak@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:10:50 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added to the file module the functionality to force
conversion hard link and symlink when the force attribute is set to 'yes'
---
files/file | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/files/file b/files/file
index 134b5284efd..5e308e11263 100644
--- a/files/file
+++ b/files/file
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ def main():
module.exit_json(path=path, changed=True)
if prev_state != 'absent' and prev_state != state:
- if not (force and (prev_state == 'file' or prev_state == 'directory') and state == 'link') and state != 'touch':
+ if not (force and (prev_state == 'file' or prev_state == 'hard' or prev_state == 'directory') and state == 'link') and state != 'touch':
module.fail_json(path=path, msg='refusing to convert between %s and %s for %s' % (prev_state, state, src))
if prev_state == 'absent' and state == 'absent':