Various new things to share since my last email a few days ago, from
various user contributions.
** Prompting for Encrypted Passwords
Rodney Quillo revived an old patch from Matthew Williams, resulting in
the ability to use vars_prompt to encrypt parameters, which can be
great for providing passwords. See
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/playbooks/prompts.yml
** Auto Backup Of Files
Seth Vidal added a backup=yes|no option to the 'copy' module, which
means it should also work fine with 'template'. This will create a
backup file including the timestamp information so you can get the
original file back if you somehow clobbered it incorrectly. The
default is NOT to backup.
** Yum Module Without Repoquery
Daniel Zakrisson has made it so that if you don't have repoquery
installed, the yum module is still workable. You can't do
comparisions like ">" or "<", or use list=, but installs, updates, and
removals work as you would expect. If you don't have repoquery
installed and didn't want to bootstrap it, this is for you.
** Misc Fixes
There have been various random fixes -- not passing "--" to sudo so
sudo is happy on RHEL5, making it such that the remote MD5 operations
don't have Bash-things in them, etc. I've also fixed some variable
issues with parameterized includes and being able to set a user via
--extra-vars. Further, the file module no longer recursively sets
permissions if you use state=directory.
This and other things will get documented closer to the 0.7 release.
--Michael