Bumping the version of a library and deleting older versions

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I have a jar file named something like myjar -1.1.0-assembly.jar. When our team does a release, a new jar named something like myjar -1.2.0-assembly.jar is created and needs to be deployed to the world. Additionally, any jars matching the myjar -[VERSION]-assembly.jar pattern need to be deleted as part of this process to prevent any class conflicts at runtime.

What’s the best way to do this with Ansible?

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Package them and let your distribution’s package manager handle that?

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packaging is better, but a quick and dirty play:

- shell: ls myjar -*-assembly.jar
  register: existingjars

- copy: newjar dest=
   register: jarchanged

# or this can also be a handler, change register:jarchanged to notify
- file: path={{item}} state=absent
   with_items: existingjars
   when: jarchanged.changed