From b8a66ce5bb050513e1cbd33f656f412d1fb1c88a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael DeHaan <michael@ansibleworks.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 18:15:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Lookup plugins in included files now look in paths relative
 to their files, allowing role usage.

---
 lib/ansible/runner/lookup_plugins/file.py | 1 +
 lib/ansible/utils/template.py             | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/runner/lookup_plugins/file.py b/lib/ansible/runner/lookup_plugins/file.py
index aed322ccb1..d5291c2267 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/runner/lookup_plugins/file.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/runner/lookup_plugins/file.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ class LookupModule(object):
         self.basedir = basedir
 
     def run(self, terms, inject=None, **kwargs):
+
         terms = utils.listify_lookup_plugin_terms(terms, self.basedir, inject)
         ret = []
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/template.py b/lib/ansible/utils/template.py
index 7553d89695..5d23e40258 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/template.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/template.py
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ def lookup(name, *args, **kwargs):
     from ansible import utils
     instance = utils.plugins.lookup_loader.get(name.lower(), basedir=kwargs.get('basedir',None))
     vars = kwargs.get('vars', None)
+
     if instance is not None:
         ran = instance.run(*args, inject=vars, **kwargs)
         return ",".join(ran)
@@ -470,6 +471,12 @@ def template_from_string(basedir, data, vars):
         environment.filters.update(_get_filters())
         environment.template_class = J2Template
 
+        if '_original_file' in vars:
+            basedir = os.path.dirname(vars['_original_file'])
+            filesdir = os.path.join(basedir, '..', 'files')
+            if os.path.exists(filesdir):
+                basedir = filesdir
+
         # TODO: may need some way of using lookup plugins here seeing we aren't calling
         # the legacy engine, lookup() as a function, perhaps?