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Contributing to Ansible

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Extending Ansible

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  • Cisco Meraki Guide
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  • Rackspace Cloud Guide
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Ansible for Network Automation

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    • Sanity Tests » no-unicode_literals
    • Sanity Tests » pep8
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    • Sanity Tests » pylint
    • Sanity Tests » replace-urlopen
    • Sanity Tests » required-and-default-attributes
    • Sanity Tests » rstcheck
    • Sanity Tests » sanity-docs
    • Sanity Tests » shebang
    • Sanity Tests » shellcheck
    • Sanity Tests » symlinks
    • Sanity Tests » test-constraints
    • Sanity Tests » use-argspec-type-path
    • Sanity Tests » use-compat-six
    • Sanity Tests » validate-modules
    • Sanity Tests » yamllint
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  • Sanity Tests » symlinks

Sanity Tests » symlinks¶

Symbolic links are only permitted for files that exist to ensure proper tarball generation during a release.

If other types of symlinks are needed for tests they must be created as part of the test.

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