On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:00:54PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote: > Add an option '--list-os-options' to virt-install and virt-convert to > dump the valid os-type/variant values from our internal OS dictionary > (then exit). Prior to this, the only way a user knew what to pass was > via the quite outdated man pages, or via virt-manager (which reads the > OS dictionary from virtinst). > > On one side I'm hesitant about this: we are going to expand this OS > metadata in the future with a potentially more granular approach (ex. > RHEL5.1/2/3 instead of just RHEL5), and giving the illusion that this is > stable (and machine parseable) may make it harder to deviate later. > > That said, this solution is clearly much more useful and sustainable > than the current situation, so until we work out something better I > think this patch is the way to go. How about making the build process extract this list and stuff them into the POD man page, so it is always up2date ? Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
