A when statement supplied to flush_handlers has never worked. It was silently ignored in the past, but now has a warning.
There is an open feature request to allow this to work: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41313 On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 1:09 PM Frank Thommen <lists.ansi...@drosera.ch> wrote: > Hello, > > our latest yum update brought ansible from 2.4.2.0 to 2.7.2 and now we > are facing > > [WARNING]: flush_handlers task does not support when conditional > > we need the handlers to be flushed at that point, as later tasks rely on > previously reconfigured services to be reloaded. The "when" originates > from our role definition: > > ---------------------- > - hosts: all > name: "====== BLAH ======" > roles: > - { role: blah, when: has_blah|default(False) } > tags: > - blah-only > ---------------------- > (has_blah is an inventory variable, the hosts which "have blah" are > spread over all our host groups. To organize them in a separate host > group would be too much overhead as this characteristic can change very > often). > > I can't find this restriction mentioned anywhere in the changelogs or > the documentation of handlers or "meta" and I wonder > > a) why this - IMHO irritating - change of behaviour has been introduced > > and > > b) what would be the best way to work around it > > > Any help or hint is appreciated. > > > frank > > > -- > 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/f9ecce8b-2c47-472d-ad1e-9074f3894070%40drosera.ch > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Matt Martz @sivel sivel.net -- 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/CAD8N0v95xvMwYZmJP0Lqh%3Drq3rxeDiEg4xCXB%3Dp09yFVra1z-A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
