Lookup plugins and async tasks

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Some of my subversion checkout tasks take really long and I do not have to wait for them. So I thought async with no polling would do the job. Unfortunately, the definition of my subversion tasks is in a hash and so I wanted to use with_items but then I learned that those can’t be combined.

The task looks like this:

  • name: “Install from SVN”
    subversion: repo=‘{{item.src}}’
    dest=‘{{item.dest}}’
    force=yes
    sudo: no
    async: 6000
    poll: 0
    with_items: repositories

And here is the error message:

fatal: [HOST] => lookup plugins (with_*) cannot be used with async tasks

Any chance to get this working or another module which would do the job instead?

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I wish I had Python skills. So, I’m no good candidate I’m afraid, although a huge contributor to open source otherwise.