No update is ever needed for a bug - we fix the bug. In this case, this should already be addressed by 1.6.
The current released version of Ansible is 1.6.1, and since you are using Scientific Linux, I highly recommend using EPEL to get the latest Ansible - it's good stuff. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Paddy Doyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The 1.5.4 change to stop expanding 'facts' variables in 'vars_files' paths > has just hit me (I know I'm behind, running of Scientific Linux 6 so > updates are slow!). > > I'd just like to point out that the web documentation needs to be updated: > specifically the 'vars_files' example in the 'Conditional Imports' section > still uses "{{ansible_os_family}}" in the path: > > http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_variables.html#conditional-imports > > > I'd like to also ask for some advice on how to update my playbooks now to > deal with the new behaviour. > > I know there's a note saying that the feature isn't used that often, and > points you to the 'group_by' module, but to be honest the examples on the > group_by page make no sense to me ( > http://docs.ansible.com/group_by_module.html). > > This is what I have (and worked prior to 1.5.4): > > vars_files: > - ../vars/global.yml > - ../vars/{{ansible_distribution}}.yml > > (and so I have a 'vars/Ubuntu.yml' and 'vars/Scientific.yml' etc where I > put a couple of OS-specific vars). > > I guess I'll need to reorganise things and maybe use > {{ansible_distrubution}} more, but if anyone has an example of how they > migrated, I'd appreciate it. > > Thanks, > Paddy > > -- > 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/2b8645fe-0244-461f-9159-02c403f918c1%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/2b8645fe-0244-461f-9159-02c403f918c1%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgyocbhaBsGY5boYxvNgqQ2n7cWtA_6LvLztnEKvC%2BNvoA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
