no, in that case there is nothing that will work w/o editing the
playbook and introducing a 'checkpoint task' like debug: with a name
you can use as reference.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Steven Truong <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Please excuse me if I am wrong but the problem with using the same ordering
> and role name in plays is that unless you can provide a scope such as
> play#.task_name then how do you apply a play preceded by another play with
> the same starting role.  And there are times I have to apply the same role
> to different hosts according to some orders of execution and then I need to
> go  back and fix things starting a play.
>
> --list-tasks
>
> play #2 (host1):
>    setup abc
>    .....
>
> play #3 (host3):
>    setup abc
>   ....
>
> If I used --start-at-task "setup abc" then how would I be able to achieve my
> goal as to start at play #3 and not play #2.  Certainly Ansible can still
> apply all tasks in play #2 and that could be ok in some cases but when I
> want  to save times or just to apply changes to hosts in starting at a
> specific play and avoid commenting out all previous plays up to the play I
> want to start with then would your suggestion work?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Steven.
>
> On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 2:14:20 PM UTC-7, Brian Coca wrote:
>>
>> --list-tasks should show the tasks and their names, --start-at-task
>> will then let you start at any task (does not matter if it was defined
>> in a role a play or an include).
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Steven Truong <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > The problem here is that role1 is the first role for play #2 and play #3
>> > but
>> > I want to start with play #3 and I do not want to edit or comment my
>> > playbook.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 2:05:58 PM UTC-7, Brian Coca wrote:
>> >>
>> >> We already have something, not play, but task based --start-at-task,
>> >> also it uses the name not a number.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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