use ansible command machine as packager

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Hello,

I would like to use ansible to create/prepare packages (yum packages, .tgz files, …) before they are deployed to other hosts.

do you think it is a good idea to have 127.0.0.1 in the inventory and target this host with a packager play ?

I am interested in knowing how others are solving their packaging needs

Thanks
Jerome

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It’s fine to put localhost in inventory, just be sure you don’t ever address the “all” group and instead select a group of hosts that describe what you want to manage.

We have an open pull request to make localhost implicit in inventory just for plays that say “hosts: localhost” so you don’t even have to add this.