Module update_alternatives for Debian/Ubuntu

[Philipp Grau]

Hello,

to get my feet wet with ansible I wrote a small module that handles the
update-alternative command
(http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/91) on Debian/Ubuntu systems.
It is about setting the default application for awk (gwak|nawk|mawk) or
x-browser and stuff like that. Even handling of diffrent java installations
is possible.

It's small and simple but "works for me"(tm). You can have a look here:

https://github.com/phgrau/ansible-stuff

Feedback is welcome.

Kind regards,

Philipp

[Lorin Hochstein]

Hi Phillip:

Just today, I had a need for this module on Ubuntu, and I was very happy to discover that it existed already. I've tested it out, and it works for me as well. Could you contribute this to the upstream ansible project? 

Lorin

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[Brian Coca]

And my todo list just got shortened, awesome thanks!

Just send a pull request to the ansible project to get it merged into core.

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[Michael DeHaan]

Alternatives is also a Red Hat thing, so you might want to also check it there to see if there are any differences.

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[Ali-Akber Saifee]

Hi, 

Was there any progress on bringing this module into ansible core? If not, is there anything I can do to help? (I'd like to use the module and would rather not copy/paste)

[Michael DeHaan]

I don't recall seeing a pull request, but I could be misremembering.

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[Brian Coca]

one was rejected, i put on my list to 'fix it up for acceptance' but haven't gotten around to it yet.

[Ben Turner]

Keen to see this in Ansible Core too - does anyone have a link to any previous pull request ?

[Petros Moisiadis]

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If you don't need this task to be idempotent, you can use something like this:

- name: Update debian alternatives
  command: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --set {{ item.name }} {{ item.path }}
  with_items:
    - name: editor
      path: /usr/bin/vim.basic

[Michael DeHaan]

Yep, that command won't hurt anything so it would be fine to run that way.

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