From 95718f7e128a8b36ca93d6589328cc5b739668b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giovanni Sciortino <30353557+giovannisciortino@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:49:35 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix archive module can not compress a single file in a tar
 file (#45117)

fixes #44968
---
 lib/ansible/modules/files/archive.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/files/archive.py b/lib/ansible/modules/files/archive.py
index b14907aa42a..157a37fdf90 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/files/archive.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/files/archive.py
@@ -426,7 +426,10 @@ def main():
                         arcfile.write(path, path[len(arcroot):])
                         arcfile.close()
                         state = 'archive'  # because all zip files are archives
-
+                    elif format == 'tar':
+                        arcfile = tarfile.open(dest, 'w')
+                        arcfile.add(path)
+                        arcfile.close()
                     else:
                         f_in = open(path, 'rb')