# Patch module **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [April 4, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/patch-module/12624 "2013-04-04T02:33:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein1)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/patch-module/12624/1 "2013-04-04T02:33:27Z")
I’d like to write a “patch” module that copies over a patch file and runs (idempotenetly) runs the patch program. How do I copy a local file to the remote machine inside an ansible module? Lorin ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/patch-module/12624/2 "2013-04-04T12:35:14Z")
You would have to do something like the 'copy' module where there is both a local and remote plugin component. As this mostly just needs the functionality of the copy plugin, it might be nice to just find a way to put some metadata in the module itself that lets it transfer src to dest via copy before running (i.e. some modification to runner.py). If that is done, a good way to test would be to implement copy.py (modify it) to allow the remote module to work exactly like this. Until then, you would just need the two stage process and require the path module to take a local path. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2013, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/patch-module/12624/3 "2013-04-04T12:35:21Z")
s/path/patch/ ---
**Author:** ![Yang\_Zhang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yang\_Zhang](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Yang_Zhang)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/patch-module/12624/4 "2013-04-12T20:53:08Z")
Hi Lorin, did you ever write a patch module or modify the file module as suggested by Michael? I for one would find this useful. ---
**Author:** ![Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@Lorin\_Hochstein1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Lorin_Hochstein1)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/patch-module/12624/5 "2013-04-12T20:55:19Z")
Hi Yang: No, I’m afraid not, unfortunately other stuff has been keeping me busy. Not sure when I’ll have a chance at this. Take care, Lorin ---
**Author:** ![Luis\_Perez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/aca169/32.png) [@Luis\_Perez](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Luis_Perez)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/patch-module/12624/6 "2013-07-24T09:08:01Z")
Hello, Some months ago i wrote a small patch module. However it assumes that the patch file is already uploaded to the remote machine. I didn’t have the time to improve it. You can find it here: [https://github.com/luisperlaz/ansible-misc-modules/blob/master/patch](https://github.com/luisperlaz/ansible-misc-modules/blob/master/patch) Luis ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca1)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/patch-module/12624/7 "2013-07-24T15:26:10Z")
nice, this is/was on my list, mind if i expand it to be able to copy the file from ‘master’ ?