When you use tags you are selecting what to execute. There are no "negative tags".
Both tags above have been applied with "update", and you've requested all things with update to run. On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Michael Hauck <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I found the problem in my code: > > If I include the role tmp in my playbook using > > > - { role: tmp, tags: update } > > it seems like all tasks of the role are executed, and the tags are not > respected. > > If I put the role in the playbook without denoting a tag, the tags are > respected if specified in the ansible-playbook command, e.g. using --tags > "update" > > Is this intended behaviour or a bug? > > > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 8:59:12 PM UTC+2, Michael Hauck wrote: >> >> I have a problem that I want to execute only tasks with certain tags from >> a playbook, but this does not work. >> >> My playbook looks as follows: >> >> #playbook.yml >> - hosts: appservers >> remote_user: myuser >> roles: >> - { role: tmp, tags: update } >> >> The tmp role task file looks as follows: >> >> # roles/tmp/tasks/main.yml >> - name: Test 1 >> debug: msg="Test 1" >> tags: anothertag >> >> - name: Test 2 >> debug: msg="Test 2" >> tags: update >> >> >> If I execute the playbook with >> >> ansible-playbook -i inventory/test playbook.yml >> >> or >> >> ansible-playbook -i inventory/test playbook.yml --tags=update >> >> all two tasks are executed both times. >> I do not want task "Test 1" to be executed. >> >> I can achieve this by running ansible-playbook with the option >> --skip-tags=anothertag, but this not what I want. >> Do you know how I can get that to work or where my scripts are erroneous? >> >> Thanks, >> Michael >> > -- > 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/486c6fcf-9f5e-4bcc-88b8-9a2b8afe4d3d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/486c6fcf-9f5e-4bcc-88b8-9a2b8afe4d3d%40googlegroups.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%2BnsWgwQq8JBAf4AV7DVcQUDgN53BA_vtd-zZG9m-vCegfwdOA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
