Jira (PUP-1163) Need a mechanism to only execute if a tag is set

[Jason Antman (JIRA)]

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Jason Antman commented on an issue   Re: Need a mechanism to only execute if a tag is set Jo Rhett I read through the comments in the Redmine ticket and I'm still trying to make sure I understand what you're trying to do. You said "The issue is that I want to write a manifest where the things in the manifest do not happen UNLESS certain tags are present." if $environment =~ /MyLimitedRun/ { ...things that only happen when environment is set } So are you saying that you don't want these "things" to happen AT ALL during a normal (un-tagged) run? I assume that's the case, in which, yeah, I can't really think of a way to do this, aside from changing doing some sort of hack with containment or anchors. I'm going to change this from a bug to a feature request, as that seems to be what it is. Aside - pytest, one of the python test suite runners, supports tags with boolean operators, so I could tell it to run all tests tagged "foo and (not bar)". I suppose that could be implemented in Puppet (I have no idea how much work it would be - I imagine it wouldn't be trivial) but I don't know how you'd specify the "not bar" part on a normal run (i.e. one not called with --tags). For the time being, I'll assign this back to Jo, maybe he can elaborate a bit on what this would look likt. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1163 Need a mechanism to only execute if a tag is set Tags are clearly very useful for limiting which code is being run. What I truly need is to only run some things if a tag is set. Right now we have to limit what we run with tags, but control whether to run things with environments, which is silly. This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.