# unarchive, zip and idempotence **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [May 28, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440 "2019-05-28T16:00:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wawrzek_Niewodniczan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440/1 "2019-05-28T16:00:42Z")
Hi, I have a zip files with 3 jars inside (no directory). When I use unarchive it always finds diff, even if files already exist. With simple diff i see: .f....o..?? bcpkix-jdk15on-1.60.jar .f....o..?? bcprov-jdk15on-1.60.jar .f....o..?? doorman.jar Is that known problem? If not I'll try to prepare a test case for bug report. Wawrzek ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440/2 "2019-05-28T19:29:01Z")
What does your task:playbook exactly look like? ---
**Author:** ![Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wawrzek_Niewodniczan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440/3 "2019-05-31T23:04:35Z")
I've played around and the problem is with setting files ownerships. I created simple example (see below) and attached test.zip example. If we remove 2 last lines task will be idempotence. Wawrzek > **(attachments)** > > [test.zip](https://forum.ansible.com/uploads/short-url/g9bsLxNgvDpvtCXmN25vHuAQPRK.zip) (451 Bytes) ---
**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 1:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440/4 "2019-06-01T13:03:53Z")
I can confirm this behavior, but it's only the owner that causing problems. So it's a bug in unarchive when using become and the owner parameter is different from root in Ansible 2.8.0 that I tested on. ---
**Author:** ![Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wawrzek_Niewodniczan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2019, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440/5 "2019-06-01T16:51:48Z")
> \>\> > \>\> What does your task:playbook exactly look like? > \> > \> I've played around and the problem is with setting files ownerships. [...] > I can confirm this behavior, but it's only the owner that causing problems. > > So it's a bug in unarchive when using become and the owner parameter is different from root in Ansible 2.8.0 that I tested on. Thanks Kai, I'm going to raise a ticket on Github. Wawrzek ---
**Author:** ![Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wawrzek_Niewodniczan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440/6 "2019-06-04T07:07:17Z")
[...] > \> I can confirm this behavior, but it's only the owner that causing problems. > \> > \> So it's a bug in unarchive when using become and the owner parameter is different from root in Ansible 2.8.0 that I tested on. > I'm going to raise a ticket on Github. FYI the ticket is [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57303](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/57303) Wawrzek ---
**Author:** ![Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wawrzek_Niewodniczan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440/7 "2019-06-04T11:08:04Z")
Thanks to Kai findings (shared in another thread) I can confirm that following change to Ansible 2.7.2 fixes the problem: --- unarchive.py.bak 2019-06-04 11:41:24.000000000 +0100 +++ unarchive.py 2019-06-04 11:46:27.000000000 +0100 @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@          fut\_owner = fut\_uid = None          if self.file\_args['owner']:              try: - tpw = pwd.getpwname(self.file\_args['owner']) + tpw = pwd.getpwnam(self.file\_args['owner'])              except:                  try:                      tpw = pwd.getpwuid(self.file\_args['owner']) I'm going to updated the ticket. Wawrzek ---
**Author:** ![Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Wawrzek\_Niewodniczan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wawrzek_Niewodniczan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unarchive-zip-and-idempotence/30440/8 "2019-06-04T11:09:58Z")
Clarification - it's ansible 2.7.10 Wawrzek