Forcing a gather when using caching

[Jeffrey Honig]

I'm using:

jch@jch-air[727]:master$ ansible --version

ansible 2.4.2.0

  config file = /Users/jch/Documents/ttn-multitech-cm/master/ansible.cfg

  configured module search path = [u'/Users/jch/.ansible/plugins/modules', u'/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']

  ansible python module location = /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/2.4.2.0_2/libexec/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible

  executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible

  python version = 2.7.10 (default, Jul 15 2017, 17:16:57) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.31)]

I'm caching facts:

gathering = smart

fact_caching = jsonfile

fact_caching_connection = catalog

fact_caching_timeout = 3600

My targets are low powered embedded gateways running Yocto Project Linux, so I implement some speed-up with facts.  One of the facts is a list of  packages installed, this greatly speeds up an Ansible run as I do not need to run individual opkg tasks if the package is in the package list fact.

However, I am running into a caching issue.  If I install or remove a package, I need to update the facts.  I can do this at the end of a run in a handler.  However the caching seems to ignore my attempt to refresh the cache with:

- name: Reload ansible_local

  setup: filter=ansible_local

It seems to me that this is a bug.  The documentation is not too clear on the interaction between setup_module and caching.  Or am I missing a way to force a reload?

Thanks.

Jeff

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On Saturday, 20 January 2018 15.09.56 CET Jeffrey Honig wrote:
> However the caching seems to ignore my attempt to refresh the
> cache with:
>
> - name: Reload ansible_local
> setup: filter=ansible_local
>
> It seems to me that this is a bug. The documentation is not too clear on
> the interaction between setup_module and caching. Or am I missing a way to
> force a reload?

Do a clear facts first, it also clear the cache
- meta: clear_facts

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Kai Stian Olstad