Hi,
I was wondering if the bug that was fixed mid-last-year to make “–diff” work correctly with blockinfile can be backported to 2.3.x? It is in 2.4.x but I can’t upgrade to 2.4.x yet because it dropped support for Python 2.4 servers, and I still have ~35 RHEL5 systems that I need to support – probably until the end of this calendar year. Using a 3rd-party Python doesn’t really work with a lot of things like Yum. I use blockinfile a lot, but makes me nervous to always push-out changes without being able to see what will actually change in a dry run first in check mode.
This is the bug:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/23198
Thanks,
michael