There was a bug in ansible where when a variable foo is the string "false" it interprets both "foo" and "not foo" as true.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/8629 But this bug is for an old version of ansible. Which version are you using? On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Matt Hughes <hughes.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a task to copy two different versions of the same file: > > - name: Copy Version A > copy: ... > when: useCopyA > > - name: Copy Version B > copy: ... > when: not useCopyA > > > > For a playbook that has useCopyA defined as false, Ansible is skipping both > tasks. > > If I replace "not useCopyA" with "not false", "Copy Version B" successfully > executes with either OK or Changed, so 'not' works as I would expect. I > have 'useCopyA' defined as false in my defaults/main.yml. It is only > defined as true in one inventory which I am not using. Any idea on what > could be going wrong here? > > -- > 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-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/3423dba6-2c6e-46f4-8685-fbe9e9ed95bb%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAJQqANdF%3D71nmpmmBmpO1q5dW55PCym4V-gZotM%3DSNChFF74cw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
