ansible/test/integration/targets/unarchive/tasks/test_symlink.yml

- name: Create a destination dir
  file:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive-tar-gz"
    state: directory

- name: Create a symlink to the destination dir
  file:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/link-to-unarchive-dir"
    src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive-tar-gz"
    state: "link"

- name: test that unarchive works when dest is a symlink to a dir
  unarchive:
    src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive.tar.gz"
    dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/link-to-unarchive-dir"
    mode: "u+rwX,go+rX"
    remote_src: yes
  register: unarchive_11

- name: Check that file is really there
  stat:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive-tar-gz/foo-unarchive.txt"
  register: unarchive11_stat0

- name: Assert that unarchive when dest is a symlink to a dir worked
  assert:
    that:
      - "unarchive_11.changed == true"
      - "unarchive11_stat0.stat.exists == true"

- name: remove our tar.gz unarchive destination
  file:
    path: '{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive-tar-gz'
    state: absent

- name: Create a file
  file:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive-tar-gz"
    state: touch

- name: Create a symlink to the file
  file:
    src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive-tar-gz"
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/link-to-unarchive-file"
    state: "link"

- name: test that unarchive fails when dest is a link to a file
  unarchive:
    src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive.tar.gz"
    dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/link-to-unarchive-file"
    mode: "u+rwX,go+rX"
    remote_src: yes
  ignore_errors: True
  register: unarchive_12

- name: Assert that unarchive when dest is a file failed
  assert:
    that:
      - "unarchive_12.failed == true"

- name: remove our tar.gz unarchive destination
  file:
    path: '{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-unarchive-tar-gz'
    state: absent

- name: Create a destination dir
  file:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink"
    state: directory

- name: Create files
  file:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink/{{ item }}"
    state: touch
  loop:
    - file1
    - file2

- name: Create a symlink to the file
  file:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink/link1"
    src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink/file1"
    state: link

- name: Create archive of symlink
  shell: tar czvf {{ remote_tmp_dir }}/link1.tar.gz link1 chdir={{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink

- name: Change target of symlink
  file:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink/link1"
    src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink/file2"
    state: link

- name: Unarchive when symlink differs
  unarchive:
    src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/link1.tar.gz"
    dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink"
    remote_src: yes
  register: unarchive_13

- name: Assert that unarchive was performed
  assert:
    that:
      - unarchive_13.changed == true

- name: Unarchive when symlink is the same
  unarchive:
    src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/link1.tar.gz"
    dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink"
    remote_src: yes
  register: unarchive_13

- name: Assert that unarchive was not performed
  assert:
    that:
      - "unarchive_13.changed == false"

- name: Remove files
  file:
    path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/test-symlink/{{ item }}"
    state: absent
  with_items:
    - file1
    - file2
    - link1
    - link1.tar.gz