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Shorter commands for the ansible installation pipeline #6

Open wintered opened 5 years ago

wintered commented 5 years ago

The ansible installation pipeline is great, however commands like

ansible-playbook -i dotfiles_installation/localhost_inventory.yml dotfiles_installation/install/install.yml are simply too long (even need vertical scrolling bars in the github README). Find a way to make this more compact that still obeys the ansible conventions and is not overly cryptic.

MFreidank commented 5 years ago

we could ship a small script that exposes all command line options of ansible but uses the call outlined above as default. What's your thoughts?

MFreidank commented 5 years ago

I think setup.py is a somewhat protected name used to distribute pure python packages - which is not what we do here, so I think we should call the script something else.

Maybe: python dotfiles.py install/uninstall [ansible-options]

Which resolves to: ansible-playbooks -i $INVENTORY_FILE tasks/[install/uninstall].yml [further ansible options, e. G. tags]

With what I propose a simple: python dotfiles.py install would set all dotfiles up. We could even use the script to also install ansible [with an option to use an existing executable, to support rare cases with strange setup] , which would allow users to only have to worry about having python available. What do you think about this?

Am Di., 19. Feb. 2019, 20:20 hat Dominik Winterer notifications@github.com geschrieben:

Yes what you mention is a good idea. How would you call the script? What is the convention? Maybe something like:

python setup.py

What do you think?

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wintered commented 5 years ago

We could even use the script to also install ansible [with an option to use an existing executable, to support rare cases with strange setup] , which would allow users to only have to worry about having python available.

Sounds good.

wintered commented 5 years ago

@MFreidank, offline you indicated that you were already working on this issue. Did you mean the recent post (which is the way we should do it) or uncommited changes on your side? If did not mean the latter, I would start coding.

MFreidank commented 5 years ago

@wintered Only saw this now, sorry for the delayed reply. I do remember that I have some uncommitted changes, but if you already started coding, feel free to go on, it was not that advanced yet.

MRocholl commented 4 years ago

also second a nice script to execute the ansible playbooks. Nevertheless this is definitely not a priority for now. Refactoring most of the zsh and include ansible roles that actually cover all the binaries that are called by anywhich zsh function comes first.