This manages compressed files or archives of many compressed files. You can maintain or update .gz, .bz2 compressed files, .zip archives, or tarballs compressed with gzip or bzip2.
Possible use cases:
* Back up user home directories
* Ensure large text files are always compressed
* Archive trees for distribution
The patch module has a few missing items, and inconsistencies, in its
documentation. A few of which are addressed here.
Within Ansible documentation, the choices for boolean values are
commonly 'yes', and 'no'. We standardise the options on that.
'remote_src' documentation uses 'False' and 'True' for its documentation,
so these have been updated in both the choices and default.
'src' documentation refers to 'remote_src', so is updated to use
the 'no' choice.
'backup' did not describe its options and default at all, so we add
them.
'binary' default used 'False', but specified the type as 'bool' which is
implicitly documented as 'yes'/'no', so we make that 'no' as well.
According the patch(1) manpage:
The --directory option change to the directory dir immediately, before
doing anything else.
Thus if file is not relative to dir and making file absolute ensure that
patch will find it.
Also modifies the template action plugin to use this new param
when executing the file/copy modules for templating so that links
are preserved correctly.
Fixes#8998
When trying to create a directory relative to the current working
directory, a directory is created at the root of the filesystem
instead. This patch ensures that directories specified with relative
paths will be created in the current working directory. Fully
qualified paths aren't affected
Signed-off-by: Major Hayden <major@mhtx.net>