New in version 1.9.
| parameter | required | default | choices | comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| backup (added in 2.0)
| no | no |
| Passes --backup --version-control=numbered to patch, producing numbered backup copies. |
| basedir | no | Path of a base directory in which the patch file will be applied. May be omitted when dest option is specified, otherwise required. | ||
| binary (added in 2.0)
| no | no |
| Setting to yes will disable patch's heuristic for transforming CRLF line endings into LF. Line endings of src and dest must match. If set to no, patch will replace CRLF in src files on POSIX. |
| dest | no | Path of the file on the remote machine to be patched. The names of the files to be patched are usually taken from the patch file, but if there's just one file to be patched it can specified with this option. aliases: originalfile | ||
| remote_src | no | no |
| If no, it will search for src at originating/master machine, if yes it will go to the remote/target machine for the src. |
| src | yes | Path of the patch file as accepted by the GNU patch tool. If remote_src is 'no', the patch source file is looked up from the module's files directory.aliases: patchfile | ||
| strip | no | Number that indicates the smallest prefix containing leading slashes that will be stripped from each file name found in the patch file. For more information see the strip parameter of the GNU patch tool. |
- name: Apply patch to one file
patch:
src: /tmp/index.html.patch
dest: /var/www/index.html
- name: Apply patch to multiple files under basedir
patch:
src: /tmp/customize.patch
basedir: /var/www
strip: 1
Note
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