Bug 1032881

Summary: Naked distro imports are not documented in the main docs
Product: [Retired] Beaker Reporter: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan>
Component: DocAssignee: Amit Saha <asaha>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version: 0.14CC: aigao, asaha, dcallagh, ebaak, jzhao, qwan, rmancy, tools-bugs, xjia
Target Milestone: 19.0Keywords: Documentation, Patch
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Description Nick Coghlan 2013-11-21 06:45:52 UTC 
distro-import supports importing trees without valid metadata directly by specifying family, version, name, arch, kernel and initrd explicitly on the command line, rather than leaving them to be extracted from a .composeinfo or .treeinfo metadata file.

However, the only way to discover this is to log in to the lab controller and run "distro-import --help" or look at the distro-import source code (git.beaker-project.org/cgit/beaker/tree/LabController/src/bkr/labcontroller/distro_import.py).

The main distro import docs (http://beaker-project.org/docs/admin-guide/distro-import.html) should cover this feature in order to make it more discoverable.
Comment 1 Nick Coghlan 2013-11-21 06:54:44 UTC 
Issue 911515 covers a tangentially related feature, requesting the ability to provision distros that haven't been imported into Beaker *at all*.
Comment 2 Amit Saha 2014-10-02 23:15:47 UTC 
http://gerrit.beaker-project.org/#/c/3368/
Comment 3 Dan Callaghan 2014-10-14 07:30:25 UTC 
This is now included in the development version of Beaker's docs:

https://beaker-project.org/docs-develop/admin-guide/man/beaker-import.html#naked-tree-options
Comment 4 xuezhi ma 2014-10-14 08:04:47 UTC 
Naked distro imports are documented

Change it to verified.
Comment 5 Dan Callaghan 2014-11-25 07:18:18 UTC 
Beaker 19.0 has been released.