Hi Michael, On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 23:18:22 UTC+1, Michael DeHaan wrote: > > No update is ever needed for a bug - we fix the bug. > > In this case, this should already be addressed by 1.6. >
Ah ok, so the behaviour has been reverted in 1.6, and facts variables now work again in vars_files paths? I looked through the commit logs but I couldn't see any mention of the revert. > > 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. > Yeah, I am grabbing from EPEL -- they're still only on 1.5.5. Thanks, Paddy > > > > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Paddy Doyle <[email protected]<javascript:> > > 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> 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/29682742-3a0b-460d-bb55-05bb2b21db86%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
