Work around needed for possible bug.

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Hi,

I have a playbook, with a task that reads:

# set up ssh access to bitbucket
- name: setup access to bitbucket
   import_role:
     name: bitbucketSetup
   creates: /home/ian/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
# so skipped if executed elsewhere

This fails with the error
"conflicting action statements: import_role, creates"

I have tried "include_role" which also errors "conflicting action statements".

Just for the record, the role does indeed create the file, and I do only want it run if the file does not exist. I think the error is a bug, but I am not familiar enough with Ansible, to be sure.

The setup may have been run in a previous playbook,
or from a role earlier in this playbook, or even on an earlier run of this playbook. In these cases it should not be run again.

How can I do this, without using stat, register and testing the result, which is horribly slow.

Many thanks

Ian

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Hi,

I have a playbook, with a task that reads:

set up ssh access to bitbucket

  • name: setup access to bitbucket
    import_role:
    name: bitbucketSetup
    creates: /home/ian/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

so skipped if executed elsewhere

This fails with the error
“conflicting action statements: import_role, creates”

I have tried “include_role” which also errors “conflicting action
statements”.

Just for the record, the role does indeed create the file, and I do only
want it run if the file does not exist. I think the error is a bug, but
I am not familiar enough with Ansible, to be sure.

The setup may have been run in a previous playbook,
or from a role earlier in this playbook, or even on an earlier run of
this playbook. In these cases it should not be run again.

How can I do this, without using stat, register and testing the result,
which is horribly slow.

I think that is the way to go though.
Neither import_role nor include_role supports ‘creates’.
Why would that be horribly slow?

3

Hi Ian,

Either your yaml is not properly indented or you have the wrong parameter/action with the module in used.

What i see from your statement below you have “create” as parameter/action in the import_role.

Can you confirm the use of creates. Also it would help if you can kind of put snap of code and error.

  • name: setup access to bitbucket
    import_role:
    name: bitbucketSetup
    creates: /home/ian/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Regards
Amit.

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Shouldn’t the role itself handle whether or not BitBucket is already set up? Shouldn’t the role itself be idempotent?