ansible-bruno could update wrong profile

[pfuntner]

While making a change to ansible/bruno.yaml, I realized that the steps to figure out which profile to update could end up with the wrong file if there is more than one potential file.

From the man page:

... (bash) looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable.

The playbook does indeed look for the files in that order but if the target system has both .bash_profile and .bash_login, the playbook will decide to use .bash_login because will only remember the last file it looked for. The playbook probably needs to be changed to:

• Maintain the order of step execution but skip steps once a file is found (probably requires a default value of an empty string) - this is probably more like how bash really works
• Reverse to order of step execution so .bash_profile can override the other two files, etc.

Test scenario

1. Spin up a virtual machine for the target
2. Create .bash_profile and .bash_login on the target
3. Use ansible-bruno command the target
4. Analyze the playbook output and/or examine the profiles and determine which got updated

[pfuntner]

I forgot all about this playbook and have not been using it. I'm not sure it's worth pursuing.

FWIW, ansible-tools installs my toys repo and does much of the same setup as bruno.yml.