also vars_files shouldnt have precendce over vars in an include, are you testing this in v2 ? can you please checkout the latest devel version and check.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Giovanni Tirloni <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you are missing a "- " before those includes. > > - name: blah > hosts: blah > ... > - include: blah.yml > - include: bleh.yml > > Ansible doesn't through an error if you specify the include at the same > level as name/hosts/etc... but it seem to produce an unexpected behavior > (the contents of the current playbook are completed replaced). > > You can do this: > > - include: "{{ ansible_distribution}}.yml" > > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 19:32 -0700, Michael Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hm.. > > > > I attempted to try this with the current devel branch from github and my > > examples don't work at all. There seem to be major differences and thus > > I > > can't really test properly if this issue still exists. > > > > This leaves me with three questions: > > > > Is there something horribly wrong with the way I've written my example > > playbooks? > > > > Is it expected that parameters passed to included playbooks will be > > replace > > by values in the vars_files defined in the included playbook? > > > > If so this breaks the way I was planning on handling differences for > > different operating systems. > > > > I am planning on working more with ansible, but I'm sort of stalled out > > right now as I don't want to do things in a horribly broken way of based > > on > > a behavior that might actually be a bug. Any feedback is appreciated. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 2:02:37 AM UTC-7, Michael Johnson wrote: > > > > > > I've been playing around with paramaterized playbook includes, and I > think > > > I have discovered a bug, but perhaps it is expected behavior, so I > thought > > > I would ask. > > > > > > The short version is that parameters do not override data from > vars_files. > > > I presume this is not the expected behavior? I didn't have any luck > > > finding documentation that would tell me for sure either way. > > > > > > I've only tested on 1.9.0.1, so it is possible that it is fixed in dev, > > > but I've not had a change to test that. > > > > > > Now with much more detail... > > > > > > Let's say you have play.yml with the following: > > > > > > - hosts: all > > > include: include.yml parameter=passed > > > > > > And then you have include.yml: > > > > > > - hosts: all > > > vars: > > > parameter: vars > > > tasks: > > > - debug: > > > msg: parameter={{ parameter }} > > > > > > This results in what to me is the expected result (the parameter > overrides > > > the value from 'vars': > > > > > > ok: [sun.apomorph.com] => { > > > > > > "msg": "parameter=passed" > > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > However, if you create vars.yml with the following: > > > > > > > > > parameter: file > > > > > > > > > And then change include.yml to contain the following: > > > > > > > > > - hosts: all > > > > > > vars: > > > > > > parameter: vars > > > > > > vars_files: > > > > > > - vars.yml > > > > > > tasks: > > > > > > - debug: > > > > > > msg: parameter={{ parameter }} > > > > > > > > > The result is not what I would expect (the value from vars_file is > > > utilized: > > > > > > TASK: [debug ] > > > **************************************************************** > > > > > > ok: [sun.apomorph.com] => { > > > > > > "msg": "parameter=file" > > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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/bee3f4b2-8fcb-4d75-a0e7-e1b0c5af16cf%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/1433906106.201974.291439441.457C266F%40webmail.messagingengine.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/CAFUV_d4bmcEiqAOH-u866T-KVo71oCeTK6ey5N6siBqD3BhdvQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
