Hey James,

Your solution for using ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH works! I am having issues trying 
to find out where the *constants.py* file is that you're talking about.

On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 8:57:17 AM UTC-5, James Cammarata wrote:
>
> No problem. By design, every configuration option has a corresponding 
> environment variable you can use, just look in constants.py to see them 
> (they all start with ANSIBLE_).
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 6:29 AM, Tom Bamford <[email protected] <javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks James, I didn't know about this. Will come in very handy!
>>
>> On 10 February 2015 at 08:27, James Cammarata <[email protected] 
>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Daniel, you can use the environment variable 
>>> ANSIBLE_ROLES_PATH=/path/to/roles in front of ansible-playbook to modify 
>>> the path on the fly, without having to modify your ansible.cfg (or deploy a 
>>> local cfg in the working directory). In either case, the roles path can be 
>>> a colon-separated list (just like $PATH) so that it will search multiple 
>>> paths.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Daniel Upton <[email protected] 
>>> <javascript:>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is it possible to pass the roles_path parameter (from ansible.cfg) or 
>>>> an equivalent as an argument to ansible-playbook?
>>>>
>>>> My use case is: I'm using the ansible-galaxy (tool not web service) to 
>>>> pull my shared ansible roles from private GitHub repositories into a local 
>>>> directory called "vendor_roles", and I'd like ansible playbook to look in 
>>>> this directory too - currently I work around this by symlinking the roles 
>>>> into the roles directory.
>>>>
>>>> I'd also like to share this with the rest of my time without mandating 
>>>> a specific setting in their ansible.cfg file, which can be another barrier 
>>>> to entry / I'd rather give them a Makefile checked into our source 
>>>> control...
>>>>
>>>> If this is not currently possible (browsing the source it doesn't 
>>>> appear to be) would a pull request to this end likely be accepted?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks :)
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