Heh, ansible does quite a lot of things other tools do *NOT* do. Does that make them look less mature? Absolutely not. They have different feature sets.
Recursive copy is already available, and also there is the synchronize module. I strongly suggest you refrain from making or defending such statements, this is your final warning and I will remove you from this list. On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Guillem Liarte < [email protected]> wrote: > Well, I did not come to whine only. Most people who have started using > Ansible see the potential, hence why we use it. I have offered my help too, > I do not see the point of your comment. > > Ansible does not look mature enough because it does not do thing that > older, more stablish tools do. It would be absurd to not admit to it, if > the Ansibel project is going to be competing against other tools I am sure > its main developers have all this present. > > You see, one would expect that a recursive copy, which can be achieved by > so many commands and tools and libraries would not represent a challenge > like it is. In this sense Ansible is very peculiar; I can manage MySQL > users but recursive copy is added later. > > GL > > > On Tuesday, 10 December 2013 23:33:22 UTC+1, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > >> and by the way, comments like "but it is little things like that making >> it look like not mature enough" are not going to incite a lot of people to >> help you :-) Ansible is very useful to a lot of people (like myself), and >> like any project, it has room for improvement and as an open source >> project, it relies on a healthy active community to use it and hopefully >> contribute back to it. >> >> - GS >> >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The recursive copy functionality was added for 1.4. The current version >>> of ansible is 1.4.1. >>> >>> I would recommend upgrading. >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, December 10, 2013, Guillem Liarte wrote: >>> >>>> Re-using old thread. >>>> >>>> I have something like this: >>>> >>>> - name: Check-out latest Wordpress Skeleton >>>> copy: src=/etc/ansible/roles/web/files/WordPress-Skeleton/ >>>> dest=/data/public/{{ customer }}/test owner={{ httpd-user }} group={{ >>>> httpd-user }} >>>> tags: wordpress >>>> >>>> As per notes: >>>> >>>> Local path to a file to copy to the remote server; can be absolute or >>>>> relative. If path is a directory, it is copied recursively. In this case, >>>>> if path ends with "/", only inside contents of that directory are copied >>>>> to >>>>> destination. Otherwise, if it does not end with "/", the directory itself >>>>> with all contents is copied. This behavior is similar to Rsync. >>>>> >>>> >>>> So, yes, I expected the contents to be recursively copied. But instead >>>> I get: >>>> >>>> fatal: [ndoluxel001] => Traceback (most recent call last): >>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/__init__.py", >>>>> line 382, in _executor >>>>> exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin) >>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/__init__.py", >>>>> line 471, in _executor_internal >>>>> return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, >>>>> self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args) >>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/runner/__init__.py", >>>>> line 653, in _executor_internal_inner >>>>> module_args = template.template(self.basedir, module_args, >>>>> inject, fail_on_undefined=self.error_on_undefined_vars) >>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/utils/template.py", >>>>> line 310, in template >>>>> varname = template_from_string(basedir, varname, vars, >>>>> fail_on_undefined) >>>>> File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/utils/template.py", >>>>> line 512, in template_from_string >>>>> res = >>>>> jinja2.utils.concat(t.root_render_func(t.new_context(_jinja2_vars(basedir, >>>>> vars, t.globals, fail_on_undefined), shared=True))) >>>>> File "<template>", line 12, in root >>>>> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'StrictUndefined' and >>>>> 'StrictUndefined' >>>>> >>>> Boom! >>>> >>>> Yes, this is from and to the same host. ansible 1.3.4 >>>> >>>> Side note, I use CFEngine and Puppet for other projects and I am trying >>>> to get to do similar things with Ansible, but it is little things like that >>>> making it look like not mature enough. >>>> >>>> I am not a developer, but can do some python. What suggestions do you >>>> have for me in order to fix this, and where should I look? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sunday, 15 September 2013 01:42:26 UTC+2, Jason Harris wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I seem to recall seeing somewhere that v1.3 allowed some sort of >>>>> recursive copying without resorting to a local command of rsync. But I >>>>> can't seem to find this again after looking again... Am I missing >>>>> something >>>>> or do we still need to use this workaround? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Jason >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Matt Martz >>> [email protected] >>> http://sivel.net/ >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. http://www.ansibleworks.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. 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