'always' tag doesn't match the documentation

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Hi. The docs (http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_tags.html) say that the ‘always’ tag will always run a task even if running a playbook with another tag, but it doesn’t do that for me.

I have a role called ‘common’ with a list of dependencies. The first of which is called ‘dynamic_groups’:

`
dependencies:

  • dynamic_groups
  • . . .

`

The dynamic_groups role just has the one task:

`

  • name: Build dynamic OS and Platform groups from system facts
    group_by: key={{ item }}
    with_items:
  • “{{ ansible_virtualization_type }}{{ ansible_distribution }}{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}”
  • “{{ ansible_distribution }}_{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}”
    tags:
  • always

`

I have several group_var files to match the different permutations this produces, and an inventory file to organize them into the hierarchy I want. But if I restrict a run with a tag (that is not ‘always’) the task is just ignored, contrary to the documentation.

I’m currently running ansible 1.8.2

Can you confirm if I’m doing this right?

Thanks.

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I believe that functionality was added in 1.9.