Let file module not change link to absolute when src not given (#65448)

The file module changes existing sym links from relative to absolute
if the src is not stated in the tasks since it uses `os.path.realpath`
to fetch the link source and not `os.readlink`. Changed that.
pull/72287/head
Alexander Sowitzki 4 years ago committed by Alexander Sowitzki
parent 176beddb3f
commit e804fccf1c

@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
bugfixes:
- file - prevent link src from being rewritten when src is not specified explicitly (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/65448)

@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ def ensure_symlink(path, src, follow, force, timestamps):
if src is None:
if follow:
# use the current target of the link as the source
src = to_native(os.path.realpath(b_path), errors='strict')
src = to_native(os.readlink(b_path), errors='strict')
b_src = to_bytes(src, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
if not os.path.islink(b_path) and os.path.isdir(b_path):

@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
- name: create temporary build directory
tempfile:
state: directory
suffix: ansible_test_leave_links_alone_during_touch
register: tempdir
- name: create file
copy:
mode: 0600
content: "chicken"
dest: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somefile"
- name: Create relative link
file:
src: somefile
dest: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somelink"
state: link
- stat:
path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somelink"
register: link
- stat:
path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somefile"
register: file
- assert:
that:
- "file.stat.mode == '0600'"
- "link.stat.lnk_target == 'somefile'"
- file:
path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somelink"
mode: 0644
- stat:
path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somelink"
register: link
- stat:
path: "{{ tempdir.path }}/somefile"
register: file
- assert:
that:
- "file.stat.mode == '0644'"
- "link.stat.lnk_target == 'somefile'"

@ -388,7 +388,6 @@
- name: assert that the link target was unmodified
assert:
that:
- 'file10_result is changed'
- 'file10_target_stat["stat"]["mode"] == "0644"'

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