Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] ansible.cfg: Enable the Ansible debugger when a task fails

[Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>]

On 7/16/25 1:44 PM, Daniel Gomez wrote:
> On 16/07/2025 02.11, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
>>
>> This is useful to avoid generating a whole bunch of unwanted output
>> that can change thread timing.
> 
> What do you mean? Debugging tasks (with debug module) may add delays that can
> affect the playbook time execution?

Yes, or that using "make AV=3" can generate thousands of lines of output
versus just a hundred.


>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> 
> Looks useful. From the docs example looks like import pdb; pdb.set_trace().
> https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbook_guide/playbooks_debugger.html#resolving-errors-in-the-debugger
> 
> Can you add the Ansible debugger docs link to the Kconfig?

Yes.


> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>


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Chuck Lever