There is a bit going on with the changes here. Most of the changes are cleanup of files so that they line up with the standard files.
PR #5136 was merged into the current devel and brought up to working order. A few bug fixes had to be done to get the code to test correctly. Thanks out to @pib!
Issue #5431 was not able to be confirmed as it behaved as expected with a sudo user.
Tests were added via a playbook with archive files to verify functionality.
All tests fire clean including custom playbooks across multiple linux and solaris systems.
It turns out that some of the assumptions in #5885 were slightly off. The previous fix relied on a call to the module to creat a tmp_path. This is insufficent as there are few cases that we need to have the tmp directory before we make the module call. If we don't have a tmp_path before we do a recursive call or when we find a file that does not match the remote md5 hash we need to create a tmp directory. Also we are not more percise when we will need to clean up the remote tmp_path.
Refactor the currently well-factored ec2 modules (i.e. those that already use ec2_connect) to
have a common argument spec. The idea is that new modules can use this spec without duplication
of code, and that new functionality can be added to the ec2 connection code (e.g. security
token argument)
We break the read while loop after waiting "the end of the process" and
the pipes are empty, otherwise we do another select that waits all the
timeout.
The copy action_plugin is not easy to read. Part of this commit is taking that file, restructuring it, and adding comments. No functionality changed in how it interacts with the world.
The fix for #5739 ends up being the assumption that there is a cleanup 'rm -rf' that happens at the end of the copy loop. This was not the fact before and we made a bunch of tmp directories that we hoped would end up being cleaned up. Now we just use the tmp directory that the runner provides and cleanup inline if it is a single file to be coppied or after the loop if it is a recursive copy.
As a part of this we did end up having to change runner to provide a flag so that we could short the inline tmp directory removal. This flag defaults to True so it will not change the behavior of other modules that are being called.
In particular, do not rely on the $USER environment variable always existing.
tmux for example seems to clear it, causing lots of invalid messages:
"previous known host file not found"
This broke in commit 80fd22dc, but instead of reverting that commit, we now
fall back to expanding just ~ when $USER is not set.
su_user_var. My last PR was only half merged, and when the bug fix for
the su/su_pass typo was merged, the removed line in this commit was
mistakenly reintroduced.
