Update multiple lines using lineinfile

[vmadh...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am new to Ansible and I am finding it hard to update multiple lines in 2 different stanza in a file. Below is the example:

I am trying to update gpgcheckvalue from 1 to 0 ---> gpgcheck=1 to 0 in 2 stanzas below (updates and extras)

[base]

name=CentOS-$releasever - Base

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os&infra=$infra

#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

gpgcheck=1

#released updates

[updates]

name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates&infra=$infra

#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

gpgcheck=1

#additional packages that may be useful

[extras]

name=CentOS-$releasever - Extras

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=extras&infra=$infra

#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

gpgcheck=1

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages

[centosplus]

name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus

mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus&infra=$infra

#gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/

gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-7

gpgcheck=1

enabled=0

Below is my code in my yml.

- name: Splunk Repo Update test

  become: true

  lineinfile:

    dest: '/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo'

    state: present

    insertafter: '[updates]'

    regexp: 'gpgcheck'

    line: 'gpgcheck=1'

- name: Splunk Repo Update test for Extra stanza

  become: true

  lineinfile:

    dest: '/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo'

    state: present

    insertafter: '[extras]'

    regexp: 'gpgcheck'

    line: 'gpgcheck=1'

I am sure this is not the right way to code and it could be combined into 1 lineinfile option using with_items. But, for now, I want to try this separately and see if I could. If with_items is the right way, please let me know and I can change it. But, here is the situation though. When I run this code, it is updating the stanza which is at the end (updating gpgcheck in [centosplus] stanza). I understand it is trying to find the last instance of "gpgcheck" and updating the value. But, I want only these 2 stanzas to be updated and nothing before that or after that. How can I achieve that?? Hope my question makes sense.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 30. des. 2016 19:36, vmadh...@gmail.com wrote:
> I am sure this is not the right way to code and it could be combined into 1
> lineinfile option using with_items. But, for now, I want to try this
> separately and see if I could. If with_items is the right way, please let
> me know and I can change it. But, here is the situation though. When I run
> this code, it is updating the stanza which is at the end (updating gpgcheck
> in [centosplus] stanza). I understand it is trying to find the last
> instance of "gpgcheck" and updating the value. But, I want only these 2
> stanzas to be updated and nothing before that or after that. How can I
> achieve that?? Hope my question makes sense.
>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.

Make lineinfile in this situation is not easy, since this file is a
ini-file use the ini_file module instead
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ini_file_module.html

--
Kai Stian Olstad