Changes to the metadata format were approved here:
https://github.com/ansible/proposals/issues/54
* Update documentation to the new metadata format
* Changes to metadata-tool to account for new metadata
* Add GPL license header
* Add upgrade subcommand to upgrade metadata version
* Change default metadata to the new format
* Fix exclusion of non-modules from the metadata report
* Fix ansible-doc for new module metadata
* Exclude metadata version from ansible-doc output
* Fix website docs generation for the new metadata
* Update metadata schema in valiate-modules test
* Update the metadata in all modules to the new version
Not all file-related modules consistently use "path" as the attribute to specify a single filename, some use "dest", others use "name". Most do have aliases for either "name" or "destfile".
This change makes "path" the default attribute for (single) file-related modules, but also adds "dest" and "name" as aliases, so that people can use a consistent way of attributing paths, but also to ensure backward compatibility with existing playbooks.
NOTE: The reason for changing this, is that it makes Ansible needlessly harder to use if you have to remember that e.g. the xattr module requires the name attribute, the lineinfile module requires a dest attribute, and the stat module requires a path attribute.
* FreeBSD do not support --omit-header and --absolute-names
* The option for following symlink wth getfacl is different on FreeBSD
* ZFS on Freebsd use nfsv4 acls, who use a slightly different syntax
* FreeBSD do not have a --test flag, so always return 'True'
* FreeBSD do not have the --omit-headers options, so we have to filter by ourself
* Mark Freebsd as working for the acl module
It is not documented in [the Ansible doc page][1] nor
[the BSD setfacl man entry][2] (which means it might not be compatible
with BSD) so removing it does not break the API.
On the other hand, it does not conform with POSIX 1003.1e DRAFT
STANDARD 17 according to the [Linux setfacl man entry][3] so safer to
remove.
Finally, the most important reason: in non POSIX 1003.e mode, only ACL
entries without the permissions field are accepted, so having an
optional field here is very much error-prone.
[1]: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/acl_module.html
[2]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?format=html&query=setfacl(1)
[3]: http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/setfacl1.html
- Make build_entry compatible with Python 2.4
- Re-add missing warning/comment that was forgotten while refactoring
- Replace `all()` with a good ol' for-loop Python 2.4 compatibility
- Make a condition check more explicit (when `state` is `query`)
- Make sure this module can only be run with on a Linux distribution
- Add a note about Linux-only support in the documentation
- Set the version in which recursive support was added, 2.0
If you try to set rwX permissions, ACL fails to set them at all.
Expected:
$ sudo setfacl -m 'group::rwX' www
...
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 17:09 www
With Ansible:
acl: name=/var/www permissions=rwX etype=group state=present
...
drwxrw-r-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 17:30 www
x for group is erased. =/
