Ansible question

Miroslav Suchý msuchy at redhat.com
Mon Dec 9 17:15:55 UTC 2013


On 12/07/2013 10:28 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le vendredi 06 décembre 2013 à 18:01 +0100, Miroslav Suchy a écrit :
>> >Working on Copr, I want to replace/add one line in file. I spent more
>> >then hour trying various things, but I'm out of ideas.
>> >
>> >What I'm trying to do is:
>> >
>> >self.conn.module_name = "lineinfile"
>> >self.conn.module_args = "dest=/etc/mock/%s.cfg
>> >line=\"config_opts['chroot_setup_cmd'] = 'install @build %s'\"
>> >regexp=\"^.*chroot_setup_cmd.*$\"" % (self.chroot, self.buildroot_pkgs)
>> >
>> >Which in yaml language should be (with placeholders expanded):
>> >
>> >- name: putting scl-utils-build into minimal buildroot of fedora-19-i386
>> >    lineinfile:
>> >      dest=/etc/mock/fedora-19-i386.cfg
>> >      line="config_opts['chroot_setup_cmd'] = 'install @build
>> >scl-utils-build'"
>> >      regexp="^.*chroot_setup_cmd.*$"
>> >
>> >I tried several things - among all:
>> >    - change regexp
>> >    - do not use regexp at all as that should put $line at the end of
>> >file, which would work as well
>> >    - use command module with sed, but there is too much of escaping and
>> >it is unreadable
>> >
>> >Can somebody advise me what should be correct form to replace or add
>> >that line to mock config please?
> I tested the following playbook, and it work. So I think we may need
> more information on what you try and how.

I found it.
For the record: It was permission problem. The connection was made as copr user and not as root user. And copr user 
obviously can't modify /etc/mock/* files.


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Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS
Red Hat, Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys


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