You do have an option :) Set the *hash_behaviour <http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#hash-behaviour>* in your ansible.cfg to *merge*. Then you're able to write your second file like this:
at_service: svc_enabled: yes svc_state: started which will result in (after merging it with the first dict) Cat_service: pkg_name: at pkg_state: present svc_name: atd svc_enabled: yes svc_state: started Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2015 16:59:44 UTC+2 schrieb John McNulty: > > > Hi, can someone explain this to me please. > > Say I have a dictionary in a role defaults like this .. > > at_service: > pkg_name: at > pkg_state: present > svc_name: atd > svc_enabled: no > svc_state: stopped > > I can replace that with a higher priority declaration in group_vars, or a > role vars file and change some of the values, e.g. > > at_service: > pkg_name: at > pkg_state: present > svc_name: atd > svc_enabled: yes > svc_state: started > > .. and that's fine. But why can't I just replace the key valuesI want to > change, like this .. > > at_service.svc_enabled: yes > at_service.svc_state: started > > If I do that the change is just ignored. Seems I have no option but to > replace all of it. > > Thanks, John > > -- 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/65bc3b0e-6d76-423a-ac4e-1d3ee55db093%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
