Set boolean to true based on a fact

[Willem Bos]

Hi All,

I would like to be able to set a boolean to true only when two facts have certain values:

---
- hosts: all

  vars:

    rhel5: true
    when:
      ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and
      ansible_distribution_major_version == "5"

    rhel6: true
    when:
      ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and
      ansible_distribution_major_version == "6"

  tasks:

  - name: Just debugging
    copy: src=/etc/hosts dest=/tmp/test
    when: rhel5 or rhel6

Now, the rhel5 and rhel6 booleans are always true so I guess either the 'when:' option is not valid (the parser does not complain) or I'm going about it the wrong way. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Regards,

Willem.

[Tom Bamford]

Hi Willem

Instead of declaring them as vars in your play, try the set_fact module instead.

Regards

Tom

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-proje...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to ansible...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/dbf1f453-be5f-411b-b028-2c49316a45cb%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

[Tomasz Kontusz]

Try to just set rhel5 to '{{ ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_distribution_major_version == "5" }}'

Parser didn't complain, because you just defined a variable called "when" :-)

Willem Bos <bos.h....@gmail.com> napisał:

--
Wysłane za pomocą K-9 Mail.

[Willem Bos]

Hi Tom/Tomasz,

Thanks for your help. I will definitely look into set_fact but went with Tomasz's advise. I changed the playbook to :

---

- hosts: all

  vars:

    rhel5: '{{ ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_distribution_major_version == "5" }}'

    rhel6: '{{ ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_distribution_major_version == "6" }}'

    rhel7: '{{ ansible_os_family == "RedHat" and ansible_distribution_major_version == "7" }}'

  tasks:

  - name: Just debugging

    copy: src=/etc/hosts dest=/tmp/test

    when: rhel5 or rhel6

and that works fine. Thanks again!

Regards,

Willem.