There was a bug in ansible where when a variable foo is the string "false" it interprets both "foo" and "not foo" as true.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/8629 But this bug is for an old version of ansible. Which version are you using? On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Matt Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a task to copy two different versions of the same file: > > - name: Copy Version A > copy: ... > when: useCopyA > > - name: Copy Version B > copy: ... > when: not useCopyA > > > > For a playbook that has useCopyA defined as false, Ansible is skipping both > tasks. > > If I replace "not useCopyA" with "not false", "Copy Version B" successfully > executes with either OK or Changed, so 'not' works as I would expect. I > have 'useCopyA' defined as false in my defaults/main.yml. It is only > defined as true in one inventory which I am not using. Any idea on what > could be going wrong here? > > -- > 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/3423dba6-2c6e-46f4-8685-fbe9e9ed95bb%40googlegroups.com. > 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/CAJQqANdF%3D71nmpmmBmpO1q5dW55PCym4V-gZotM%3DSNChFF74cw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
