lookup a file from a role outside the role directory

[David_Golden]

I want to pass a file path into a role and use it with a lookup plugin:

    lookup('file', some_variable)

That only seems to be working if the some_variable is a relative path
in the roles/files directory.

How can I lookup a path relative to the current directory when I run
ansible-playbook or to an absolute path?

[Michael_DeHaan2 (Michael DeHaan)]

Pretty much everyone wanted lookup paths to be relative to the role, so we fixed the glitch.

You can “climb out” of the role using “…/” etc.