problems with variables: git module creating wrong directory, /root/\[/root/olio\]/

[Daniel Charbonneau]

The second task below fails with npm not being able to find a package.json within /root/ That is, it doesn't know that it should cd into /root/olio, and so of course it isn't going to find a package.json file.

The git module for some reason creates this directory structure:

/root/\[/root/olio\]/

...which seems to imply the variable isn't interpreted correctly.

I'm also using the root user to login right now because I haven't yet grasped creating users.

---

# roles/olio/vars/main.yml

olio_directory:

  - /root/olio

---

# roles/olio/tasks/main.yml

- name: clone olio

  git: repo=https://github.com/novodinia/olio.git dest={{ olio_directory }}

- name: use npm to install dependencies

  npm: path={{ olio_directory }}

[Tomasz Kontusz]

Daniel Charbonneau <novo.char...@gmail.com> napisał:

>The second task below fails with npm not being able to find a
>package.json
>within /root/ That is, it doesn't know that it should cd into
>/root/olio,
>and so of course it isn't going to find a package.json file.
>
>The git module for some reason creates this directory structure:
>/root/\[/root/olio\]/
>
>...which seems to imply the variable isn't interpreted correctly.
>
>I'm also using the root user to login right now because I haven't yet
>grasped creating users.
>
>
>---
># roles/olio/vars/main.yml
>
>olio_directory:
> - /root/olio

This creates olio_directory as list with one element. You want just:
olio_directory: /root/olio

>---
># roles/olio/tasks/main.yml
>
>- name: clone olio
>git: repo=https://github.com/novodinia/olio.git dest={{ olio_directory
>}}
>
>- name: use npm to install dependencies
> npm: path={{ olio_directory }}

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[Daniel Charbonneau]

Thank you Tomasz, that fixed it!