Good.  And since I'm suppressing additional runs of this playbook, is there 
a way to suppress the output as well (that is the many lines of skipped 
stuff).

On Friday, July 25, 2014 3:30:38 PM UTC-4, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> The correct pattern would be:
>
> when: foo is defined and foo
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Michael Dur <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I've discovered two things I'll post here:
>>
>> 1. For the time being you can toggle failing on undefined variables in 
>> the ansible config
>>
>> 2. It is better to use 'is defined' or 'is not defined' rather than 
>> comparison in this use case. 
>>
>>
>> On Friday, July 25, 2014 3:04:28 PM UTC-4, Michael Dur wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a role which is just a meta playbook for installing many packages.
>>> I only want these to run once during an ansible run  since interacting 
>>> with the package manager is slow.
>>> I thought I'd register a variable and check it, however I'm getting an 
>>> error.
>>>
>>> TASK: [feature/zypper | remove non-seas repos] 
>>> ******************************** 
>>> fatal: [tr808.seas.upenn.edu] => error while evaluating conditional: ( 
>>> common_has_executed == 'false')
>>>
>>> Here the relevant files:
>>>
>>> common/tasks/main.yml
>>> ---
>>> - name: log common status
>>>   set_fact:  common_has_executed = 'true'
>>>
>>> common/meta/main.yml
>>> ---
>>> allow_duplicates: no
>>> dependencies:
>>>
>>>   - { role: feature/rc.firewall, when: ( common_has_executed == 'false') 
>>> }
>>>   - { role: feature/perl, when: ( common_has_executed == 'false') }
>>>   - { role: feature/python, when: ( common_has_executed == 'false') }
>>>   - { role: feature/ruby, when: ( common_has_executed is == 'false') }
>>>
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