symlinks vs directories

[David Reagan]

I have a task that creates a directory. On one server, that directory already exists, but is a symlink. So ansible says the task failed when it runs. The message: "msg: refusing to convert between link and directory for None". Is there a way to tell ansible that a symlink is ok for that task?

Or check if a directory or symlink exists before running the task?

[David Reagan]

With some help from IRC, I ended up checking for the paths with the stat module. Sadly, the only way that worked was to make 2 tasks per path. Glad I only had a few to check...

[Michael DeHaan]

force=yes is available for such things. 

There have been some recent refinements depending on what version you are using, but you didn't specify.

If force=yes doesn't handle this for you in the latest 1.5 development branch please file a ticket, and also reference the message about "None" as that's suboptimal.

Thanks.

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[David Reagan]

Would force=yes overwrite the symlink that already exists?

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[Brian Coca]

I think in this case you want a 'follow=true' which if it found a symlink would follow to source and validate that?