man directory task always changed on Ubuntu 20.04

[andyshinn]

On Ubuntu 20.04 (and maybe others) the man directory task is changed when running next day (maybe automatic updates changing permissions?). Would be nice to be able to exclude this task (not sure what it is accomplishing).

[martinwe-adfinis]

This appears to be due to #110.

It looks like the intention behind that change was to simply be explicit about the mode for /usr/share/man/man1 itself (i.e. good practice for ansible.builtin.file), but together with recurse: true, this now sets 0755 to all contained files as well.

Some digging shows that the recurse: true line originally stems from 73a17ac2d174d7caff61040ffce8737087976160 (introduced to a test, later molecule (c393b08f14fbde447612c58471df7600e42164d7), later regular task (ee7c12b13aa594dc747892860e563f45794e94d0)).

So is it possible that this was an oversight, and could recurse: true be removed at this point?

[geerlingguy]

Can you file a PR with that change and we'll see if it passes the idempotence test?

[martinwe-adfinis]

Thanks for the fast response! I've opened #131.

[geerlingguy]

Looks like it worked. Merged! This is in the latest tag, too :)

[martinwe-adfinis]

Nice, thanks! :-D