Having read the doc for this module several times and completely missing that it can be used for existing remote archives, I propose this update to the wording to make clear from the top the two ways in which this module can be used.
ansible-doc expects the value of the description field to be a list,
otherwise the output is not correct. This patch updates the flat
description to be a list.
This is a further fix for: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9092
when the relative path contains a subdirectory. Like:
ansible localhost -m copy -a 'src=/etc/group dest=foo/bar/'
In particular, if `rsync` is not installed on the remote machine the following error message will be encountered:
"rsync error: remote command not found"
If insertbefore/insertafter didn't match anything, lineinfile module was doing nothing, instead of adding the line at end of fille as it's supposed to.
If you try to set rwX permissions, ACL fails to set them at all.
Expected:
$ sudo setfacl -m 'group::rwX' www
...
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 17:09 www
With Ansible:
acl: name=/var/www permissions=rwX etype=group state=present
...
drwxrw-r-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 17:30 www
x for group is erased. =/
Encouraging users to use this Ansible module to enable SELinux seems
like a better idea. It also warms Dan Walsh's heart.
Signed-off-by: Major Hayden <major@mhtx.net>
This can be tested with this command :
ansible -c local -m copy -a 'src=/etc/group dest=foo/' all
This is a corner case of the algorithm used to find how we should
copy recursively a folder, and this commit detect it and avoid it.
Check https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9092 for the story
This small change corrects behavior when one uses an .rsync-filter file to exclude some paths from both being transferred and being deleted, so that these excluded paths can be handled separately with different tasks (e.g. in order to deploy the excluded paths independently from the rest paths and notify handlers appropriately). The problem with the double -FF option is that it excludes the .rsync-filter file from being transferred to the receiver. However, deletions are done on the side of the receiver, so it is absolutely necessary the .rsync-filter file to be transferred to the receiver, so that the receiver knows what files to delete and what not to delete.
