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Reputation: 2987

Ansible pull from svn

I am trying the pull model with Ansible, in particular I need to checkout ansible playbooks from SVN. I tried 

ansible-pull  -d “<destination directory ie. /home/me/playbooks>”  -U “http://myversioncontrol.com/myrepo” -m subversion

But I get the error:

ERROR! Unsuported repo module subversion, choices are git

Yes, with the spelling error (Unsuported).
If I execute the command ansible-doc -l I can see subversion in the list of the modules.
I also installed python-subversion (apt-get install python-subversion) and checked that is correctly installed.
However, I still have that error, how can I make ansible-pull to work with svn?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1784

Answers (2)

poleguy
poleguy

Reputation: 585

I got it to work. I needed to edit the installed pull.py file here (Centos 7):

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/cli/pull.py

I added subversion like this:

SUPPORTED_REPO_MODULES = ['git', 'subversion']

The command line I ran was like this:

ansible-pull -m subversion -U http://subversion.company.com/test/ansible/trunk/playbook --full local.yml -i hosts

Without --full I get an error saying:

E155000: '/home/user/.ansible/pull/computername' already exists

Without -i hosts it gives an error:

sudo: a password is required

Seemingly because it is using an implicit localhost

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/inventory/implicit_localhost.html

My hosts file has an entry:

[pull]
localhost connection=paramiko ansible_user=ansible

If you don't specify local.yml it will match the hostname, which will then expect computername.yml to exist. Which may be fine.

Upvotes: 0

Konstantin Suvorov
Konstantin Suvorov

Reputation: 68289

-m parameter for ansible-pull is not a standard ansible module (that you get by ansible-doc -l).
It is an internal wrapper around standard module inside ansible-pull cli utility.
As per time of writing this answer, git is the only supported pull-module (and the default one).
Here is the definition: SUPPORTED_REPO_MODULES = ['git']

Upvotes: 3

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