The best way to avoid skipped messages is to use things like "group_by" when relevant, so you don't run RedHat specific tasks on Debian systems and have to watch the skipped.
When that is not practical, there is the following setting: http://docs.ansible.com/intro_configuration.html#display-skipped-hosts On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Michael Dur <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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') } >>>> >>> -- >>> 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/a6232724-68f4-4de6-84b8- >>> 13c26e090219%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/a6232724-68f4-4de6-84b8-13c26e090219%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/69c7441e-0a8e-45ff-a77b-f9e4d685c236%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/69c7441e-0a8e-45ff-a77b-f9e4d685c236%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%2BnsWgwhDRgMG_uu%3D128UfXA7LK3GA8qG20bUkrVeSBrBwK20w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
