possibility to exclude a set of system:partition on generic runs

[akesandgren]

It would sometimes be useful to be able to exclude specific system:partition's from a generic run. For instance running a test which has "valid_systems = ['+gpu']" but excluding specific gpu enabled partitions with --exclude-system "*:V100" or some other regex.

[vkarak]

Couldn't that partition have a unique feature defined, so that you could then say -feat in valid_systems to exclude it? Then you could also set the valid_systems for this test explicitly from the command line as well.

[akesandgren]

Nah, the situation I'm thinking of is that I have multiple partitions which almost the same, features are "gpu" for instance, and I want to run the test on all gpu partitions except one (or a few) with a specific name. Mainly because I know there are no available nodes in those at that specific time. So I have 8 partitions to run stuff on but one have no free nodes... and I don't want to have to list the 7 I want on the cmdline