Puppet users - Jul 2009 - Are tags inherited through nodes or what is a good way to tag lots of nodes at once?

I wanted to do

class packages {
     if tagged("test") {
            package { "ourapp":
                   ensure => "testversion.xxx"
           }
      }
}

then have

node base-test-node {
     tag("test")
}

node test01 inherits base-test-node {
     include packages
}

but this does not appear to work. It works if I define the tag within the
node, but not within the parent node. It also doesn''t work to define a
tag
in a class and then have it included.

How can I tag a group of nodes without having to place a tag in each
individual one or am I going about this the wrong way?

I don''t want to have two separate branches for test,qa,dev,prod because
this
will be a lot of work merging. I would prefer to have all the rules then use
tags to differentiate.

At the moment I''m using variables

if $test {
}

but this has a design smell to it.

Joel

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