Unarchive module overwriting - Ansible

Question

I have an ansible playbook that downloads file from the internet and unarchives them and then sends them to another host machine. 

- hosts: group1
  sudo: yes
  tasks:

    - name: Extract Apache Tomcat from local file
      unarchive:
        src: /etc/ansible/files/apache-tomcat-9.0.1.tar.gz
        dest: /opt/
        remote_src: no

    - name: Copy file to host
      copy:
        src: /etc/ansible/files/myfile.xml
        dest: /opt/apache-tomcat-9.0.1/conf/myfile.xml

But everytime I use the unarchive module, ansible is overwriting files with the same content. 

Answer 1

Hey @joe, you can use the create option, something like this:

- unarchive:
    remote_src : yes
    src        : "{{ url }}"
    dest       : "{{ install_dir }}/"
    creates    : "{{ flagFile }}" 

This creates a flag that will prevent the overwritten if the same content is already present.