Thanks David,
That's quite a reasonable solution actually, for one it works but also it
makes you consider naming conventions for the facts and dependencies that
will use it.
I had to quote the {{ role_path }} in defaults/main.yml for it to work for
me.
So variables defined in defaults/main.yml are scoped only for the execution
of tasks in that role?
Regards,
Yoshi
On 5 January 2016 at 02:44, David Karban <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would try to get paths for files into variables in meta roles and export
> it as facts:
>
> defaults/main.yml:
> rolename_path: {{ role_path }}
>
> tasks/main.yml:
> - set_fact: rolename_path={{ rolename_path }}
>
> And that use this variable to get file:
> {{ rolepath_name + 'files/filename.txt' }}
>
> Could work.
>
> David Karban
> Linux server specialist/Specialista na správu linuxových serverů
> www.karban.eu
>
> 2016-01-05 2:32 GMT+01:00 Yoshi Spendiff <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone knows of any tricks for neatly handling common
>> file dependencies for roles. I initially thought having a common dependent
>> role in meta/main.yml would facilitate this but apparently dependencies
>> don't apply to files (which does make sense if roles are though of as
>> totally isolated), but is there some way to achieve this? Or is there some
>> way to specify search paths for files inside a role or something?
>>
>> So far the best I've come up with is putting a *files *and/or
>> *templates *directory in the root of the ansible directory and then
>> referencing files/templates with *src=file/myfile.txt *and/or
>> *src=templates/mytemplate.txt
>> *(I've also seen the recommendation to use *src={{ inventory_dir
>> }}/files/myfile.txt *but that doesn't seem necessary). The problem with
>> this is that it doesn't really organise dependencies for roles but rather
>> just lumps everything into one directory and makes it difficult to share
>> roles externally.
>>
>> Alternatively, is there some way to specify multiple task files in a role
>> so that all other components can be shared, i.e. something like the
>> following (or Chef cookbook recipes really)
>>
>> - name: myplay
>> roles:
>> - myrole.create (roles/myrole/tasks/create.yml)
>> - myrole (roles/myrole/tasks/main.yml)
>> - myrole.delete (roles/myrole/tasks/delete.yml)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yoshi
>>
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