Avoid recompiling

[chikamichi]

Hi,

I wonder whether you'd like this role avoiding recompiling nginx?

When I use it several times in a row (for instance with vagrant provision, because I made some changes to my stack), it always recompile nginx although this is useless in this use case.

[pjan]

It would of course make sense, and I would very much prefer it to be done like this

It would have to be done with an only_when and quite a number of flags to be registered.

I'm not really sure if it can be done easily.

[iamcarrico]

I am going to +1 this one, and mention when I do this to my vagrant machine--- it causes multiple instances of nginx to be running. Idea: could we just have a variable that we can set ourselves per-host? So, if we have "skip_nginx_compile: true" in a host_vars file--- it skips? A temporary stop-gap?

[mirzu]

+1

[farridav]

Perhaps you could write out the flags nginx was compiled to into a file and diff them in the task to see if it needs recompiling... I also had the issue with the old nginx still running, and I now use a handler for killing nginx processes on each re-provision..

[farridav]

Had a spare min so i put up a PR for this, let me know if fits the bill...

[chikamichi]

Thank you @farridav