Your problem is in the way you are using the content argument. Your string does not include a trailing newline, and when you run dpkg-reconfigure to update the timezone, dpkg-reconfigure will notice that there is no trailing newline and "fix it". So every time your task runs, you are removing the trailing newline that dpkg-reconfigure adds to that file.
There is some discussion about this at https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/5715 On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Christian Loos <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > if i run a task with this: > copy: dest=/etc/timezone content="Europe/Berlin" owner=root group=root > mode=0644 > it reports on every run changes. > > Verbose output of two runs: > changed: [xxx] => {"changed": true, "checksum": > "d34f419876c03cf85365d9102477a4f5791451ae", "dest": "/etc/timezone", "gid": > 0, "group": "root", "md5sum": "f047a3577fcd6af23b47814293e293c0", "mode": > "0644", "owner": "root", "size": 13, "src": > "/home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1422009942.63-92526854461725/source", > "state": "file", "uid": 0} > > changed: [xxx] => {"changed": true, "checksum": > "d34f419876c03cf85365d9102477a4f5791451ae", "dest": "/etc/timezone", "gid": > 0, "group": "root", "md5sum": "f047a3577fcd6af23b47814293e293c0", "mode": > "0644", "owner": "root", "size": 13, "src": > "/home/xxx/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1422009987.9-92475302492184/source", > "state": "file", "uid": 0} > > The md5sum of the transfered content always doesn't match the file content. > > Control host: Ubuntu > Destination Host: Debian > ansible 1.8.2 > > > Chris > > -- > 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/0a91389c-399d-4ee7-80d4-ca255143881c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0a91389c-399d-4ee7-80d4-ca255143881c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Matt Martz @sivel 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]. 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/CAD8N0v9eQSnY0JATw-Lo5KbiJ%3D7-1OpxdUsbXujPWp3dcBh%2B%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
