You should be tagging such tasks with something like 'core' like you say above, for now.
We would entertain an 'all' tag if well implemented, which I believe we've also said before. "So what should I be doing here?" Submitting a pull request? :) On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Snyder, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > How do you always have a set of tasks run regardless of the tag being > passed in on the command line? > > > > I’m getting to the point where I have a ‘core’ playbook that must be run > before any other playbook I have. This does specific things such as set > specific facts based upon my local environments or OS distro that are to be > used by all my later roles. However, when I use ‘—tags do_this’ or ‘—tags > do_that’ tasks/roles executed in my core playbook are ignored because they > aren’t tagged with ‘do_this’ or ‘do_that.’ > > > > It doesn’t seem reasonable (or scalable) to me to modify my core playbook > and add every possible tag I can ever use, nor does it seem reasonable to > force my fellow admins to always run Ansible with ‘—tags core,do_this’ or > ‘—tags core, do_that’ when they only want a particular tag to be executed. > > > > It really feels to me that Ansible is missing some way to say ‘this > task/role/whatever REQUIRES this other code to be run as well’. > > > > It seems I’m not alone in this – there’s some calls for similar > functionality here: > > * https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/3157 > > * https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/7039 > > > > So what should I be doing here? > > > > Thx > > Chris. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/BFD6B7398AEB474A9A28B39B9B5D00CB588B283D%40SRAexMBX05.sra.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/BFD6B7398AEB474A9A28B39B9B5D00CB588B283D%40SRAexMBX05.sra.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgxPzOSt%2B5k40dZ%3Dhp%3DrmQf1338m8TaBj-y1VubQubw6zA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
