Bug 635990 – app-admin/ansible should install /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg and /etc/ansible/hosts

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Xiami 2017-10-31 09:33:24 UTC]

ansible tarball provides two all-commented ansible.cfg and hosts files in ansible-${PV}/examples/

They provide essential knowledge of ansible config and ansible inventory without changing any default value. (An newbie would benefit a lot from them.)

I suggest put them into /etc/ansible since system-level ansible config is searched under /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg and inventory file defaults to /etc/ansible/hosts

[Comment 1 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) 2017-10-31 21:59:16 UTC]

How about naming them foo.sample instead (to call out what they are)?  I do the same with openstack packages.

[Comment 2 Xiami 2017-11-06 04:29:14 UTC]

It's better. :)

I suggested preserving file names because they are nearly all commented and do nothing when being parsed, under current version(2.4.0.0). Since it's not a guarantee for the future versions, adding file name suffix provides consistent behavior. (also avoid dispatch-conf/etc-update calling huh?)

Installing them into /usr/share/doc/${PF}/ may also be accepted.

[Comment 3 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) 2017-11-06 05:47:24 UTC]

It looks like 9999 was already installing the examples via dodoc, so I revbumped 2.4.1.0 to install the docs there.