Several roles reported "changed" on every playbook run even when
nothing on the target had drifted, making real config drift
indistinguishable from noise:
- 7 systemd tasks across 6 roles used state:restarted, which always
issues a restart and always reports changed. Switched to
state:started plus notify-driven handlers that only restart when
the underlying unit file, script, or config actually changes.
- pi_standard_setup's boot mode, timezone, and locale tasks shelled
out to raspi-config with changed_when:true hardcoded. Boot mode now
checks systemctl get-default first; timezone/locale now use the
natively idempotent community.general.timezone/locale_gen modules.
- The pi account password task computed password_hash('sha512')
without a seed, generating a new random salt (and thus an
apparently different hash) on every run. Added a stable seed so the
hash only changes when the underlying secret does.
Also renamed a mislabeled task in pi_squeezelite_custom and fixed a
typo in pi_standard_setup while those files were already touched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Auto-fix FQCN, YAML formatting, jinja spacing, and free-form module
syntax via ansible-lint --fix
- Fix comments misplaced inside module args by the auto-fixer
(bluetooth-monitor, pi_standard_setup, pi_musicmouse)
- Fix notify: references left stale (lowercase) after handler names
were re-cased, which would have silently broken reboot/restart
handlers (pi_disable_onboard_bluetooth, pi_hifiberry_amp,
pi_squeezelite, pi_standard_setup)
- Fix a task in pis/debmatic-install.yml missing its module name
(apt_repository), which caused a real syntax-check failure
- Add missing play names, fix comment spacing, literal-compare idiom,
and no-changed-when annotations
- Delete unused/broken roles/better-shell-env (unreferenced, invalid YAML)
- Rename all hyphenated role directories to underscore form to satisfy
ansible-lint's role-name rule, updating every playbook/meta reference
Remaining lint findings (var-naming, package-latest, risky-file-permissions,
no-handler) intentionally left for follow-up per user decision.
