Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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 via the quite outdated man pages, or via virt-manager (which reads the 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 ? > That works too. Do you think it should be in all relevant man pages (virt-convert, virt-image, virt-install) or just have the other two link back to virt-install? - Cole _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
