Unarchive module thinks existing dirs are nonexistent

[surfer190]

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#932

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

unarchive

ANSIBLE VERSION

ansible 2.1.1.0
  config file = 
  configured module search path = Default w/o overrides

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Local: Mac el capitan
Remote: ubuntu 16.04

SUMMARY

Executing the following task gives:

  - name: Download the filebeat dashboards
    get_url: url="https://download.elastic.co/beats/dashboards/beats-dashboards-1.2.2.zip" dest=/tmp/beats-dashboards-1.2.2.zip mode=0775

  - name: Unzip dashboards
    unarchive: src=/tmp/beats-dashboards-1.2.2.zip dest=/home/{{ user }}

Gives the error:

 TASK [Download the filebeat dashboards] >
 ----------------------------------------- 
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

ok: [production]
 _________________________ 
< TASK [Unzip dashboards] >
 ------------------------- 
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

fatal: [production]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "file or module does not exist: /tmp/beats-dashboards-1.2.2.zip"}

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[dagwieers]

I don't see any relation to #932. needs_info

[dagwieers]

The unarchive module by default copies the file from your management system to the target. Which means it is looking for the file /tmp/beats-dashboards-1.2.2.zip on your management server. While the get_url module downloads a file on the target system.

So there are two options:

• either you download the file on your management server (e.g. connection: local and run_once: yes)
• or you tell unarchive that the file does not need to be copied (e.g. copy=no) and thus the src is located on the target system

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