From 33fbc066812bc14b2ae179da50b5f8393b1d367b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergei Poljanski <me@asxp.io>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 06:50:37 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] base: do not fail when the prune entry is root's only cron
 line

grep -v exits 1 when it prints nothing, and with pipefail that failed
the task on both hosts, although the crontab had been rewritten
correctly. Ignore grep's exit status.

Assisted-by: Claude:fable-5-2
---
 ansible/roles/base/tasks/main.yaml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ansible/roles/base/tasks/main.yaml b/ansible/roles/base/tasks/main.yaml
index 0c9b9d0..f073e85 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/base/tasks/main.yaml
+++ b/ansible/roles/base/tasks/main.yaml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 - name: Drop the old prune entry from root's crontab
   ansible.builtin.shell: |
     set -o pipefail
-    crontab -l | grep -v 'docker image prune' | crontab -
+    crontab -l | { grep -v 'docker image prune' || true; } | crontab -
   args:
     executable: /bin/bash
   when: "'docker image prune' in root_crontab.stdout"