Here is the github link: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/34316
On Friday, November 9, 2018 at 1:52:38 PM UTC-5, James LeBlanc wrote: > > I've been looking into similar stuff with ansible. It seems like there is > a problem with the archive module in general (as of version 2.4, not sure > if its been fixed yet). I saw on their git hub that a pull request that > fixes the archive module exclude_path option has been put up, but I don't > think its been merged into the code yet. > > The problem has to do with exactly how the items in the exclude_path > interact with the items in the path. As far as I can tell it makes > exclude_path extremely hard to use and almost useless, but then again I > don't fully understand the problem so maybe I just don't see the 'correct' > way to format to work around the issue. > > I've been trying to think of a work-around that I like for the current > tarball I want to create and I stumbled on this hoping to find someone who > had already come up with a good work-around. > My leading thoughts are: > - try to do it with the shell or command module and the tar command > - use a bunch of smaller ansible file copy operations to create a staging > directory that looks like what I want and then tar up that > > I don't really like either which is why I was hoping to find a better > work-around.... > -- 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/a8e06d9b-4f2f-41ad-ace2-f778385b28b2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
