Puppet

Take this :

class myclass {
 file { "/etc/mydir/":
     owner => root,
     group => root,
     mode => 644,
     recurse => true,
     source => "puppet://puppet01/mydir/",
     ignore => ".svn*",
 }
}

Running puppetd —test —tags myclass will update the directory itself (mode for example) , but the recursed files won’t. (You get “Not tagged with myclass” for each subfiles if you run with —debug.)

As a workaround, you can add a tag in the file description :

tag    => mytag