# Regression: ansible level branch unable to resolve playbook\_dir? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [November 23, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regression-ansible-level-branch-unable-to-resolve-playbook-dir/16859 "2014-11-23T20:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mirko\_Friedenhagen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mirko\_Friedenhagen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mirko_Friedenhagen)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regression-ansible-level-branch-unable-to-resolve-playbook-dir/16859/1 "2014-11-23T20:24:46Z")
Hello, coming from 1.7.2 I just installed the devel branch (116109) via pip (git+https://github.com/ansible/ansible.git@devel#egg=ansible) (to get the omit feature). However a formerly working include: - include: “{{playbook\_dir}}/roles/accounts/tasks/copy\_ssh\_keys\_for\_system.yml” now does not work anymore, I get: ERROR: file could not read: /HOME/workspace/tooling/ci-setup/roles/ci/tasks/{{playbook\_dir}}/roles/accounts/tasks/copy\_ssh\_keys\_for\_system.yml Is this a regression? Kind Regards Mirko ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regression-ansible-level-branch-unable-to-resolve-playbook-dir/16859/2 "2014-11-24T22:36:23Z")
A regression is a bug that was previously fixed that has reoccured, but does not apply to a new bug, which is simply a bug. The Wise words of Will Woods here _almost_ get it right - [http://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/new-rule-about-regressions/](http://ohjeezlinux.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/new-rule-about-regressions/) It does seem that not having {{playbook\_dir}} defined is most definitely a bug however, so if you can file that on GitHub that would be great. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Mirko\_Friedenhagen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mirko\_Friedenhagen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mirko_Friedenhagen)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regression-ansible-level-branch-unable-to-resolve-playbook-dir/16859/3 "2014-11-25T08:27:05Z")
Hello Michael, thanks for your answer. I now tried to reproduce the bug with a tiny project. I now read that in 1.8 the modules are not part of ansible anymore, so I checked out the core and extras seperately. What I have done (this is on Mac OS X 10.10.1): --- snip --- # PWD=$HOME/workspace/foss git clone [https://github.com/ansible/ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible) git clone [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core) git clone [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras) cd ansible make cd .. mkdir ansible-no-playbook cd ansible-no-playbook virtual-env2.7 /usr/bin/python2.7 venv . venv/bin/activate pip install ../ansible ansible --version (=1.8) echo 127.0.0.1 \> hosts --- snap --- Now even running something like ansible-doc does no work correctly. I tried: ./venv/bin/ansible-doc -M $HOME/workspace/foss/ansible-modules-core:$HOME/workspace/foss/ansible-modules-extras -l but nothing is shown. I tried the following as well: [default] hostfile=hosts library=HOME/workspace/foss/ansible-modules-core/:HOME/workspace/foss/ansible-modules-extras/ Now running ./venv/bin/ansible-doc -l throws an error: Traceback (most recent call last):   File "HOME/workspace/foss/ansible-no-playbook/venv/bin/ansible-doc", line 324, in \     main()   File "HOME/workspace/foss/ansible-no-playbook/venv/bin/ansible-doc", line 266, in main     pager(get\_module\_list\_text(module\_list))   File "HOME/workspace/foss/ansible-no-playbook/venv/bin/ansible-doc", line 169, in get\_module\_list\_text     displace = max(len(x) for x in module\_list) ValueError: max() arg is an empty sequence I even tried symlinking above repositories to venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules as core and extras. I am a little bit confused how to get this basically working? Regards Mirko Regards Mirko ---
**Author:** ![Mirko\_Friedenhagen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Mirko\_Friedenhagen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mirko_Friedenhagen)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2014, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/regression-ansible-level-branch-unable-to-resolve-playbook-dir/16859/4 "2014-11-25T12:36:57Z")
Bug filed: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9618](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/9618) 🙂 Regards Mirko