Bug 1034771
| Summary: | [ovirt-hosted-engine-setup] hosted-engine $command --help or teach --help to show all options | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager | Reporter: | Jiri Belka <jbelka> |
| Component: | ovirt-hosted-engine-setup | Assignee: | Adam Litke <alitke> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | movciari |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 3.3.0 | CC: | alitke, dfediuck, didi, iheim, oschreib, pstehlik, sbonazzo, scohen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | EasyFix, Triaged |
| Target Release: | 3.3.0 | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Whiteboard: | integration | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2014-01-21 16:55:36 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
| Bug Depends On: | 1038626, 1046019 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
patch merged on master branch: 02c0cf0961076d1416829dcb1ef600a72a90192b patch merged also on 1.0 branch. proposing as blocker for inclusion in 3.3.0. Merged upstream as 02c0cf0961076d1416829dcb1ef600a72a90192b *** Bug 1046019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0083.html |
Description of problem: hosted-engine $command --help or teach --help to show all options. # hosted-engine --deploy --help Usage: /usr/share/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/scripts/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup --config-append=file Load extra configuration files. --generate-answer=file Generate answer file. is bizzare syntax. no sane command line application uses such syntax, especially comment is... how would one know it should be written like this? * '--deploy' is an option So either teach --help to show all possible option and inform user that it is a kind of "suboption" of another option (lol), or better change "commands" into command syntax like git does it. * git --help commit ...or... git commit --help thus * hosted-engine --help ...or... hosted-engine deploy --help / hosted-engine --help deploy Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): is24.2 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. how would you know there's "config-append" option for hosted-engine (??) [no source reading please!] 2. 3. Actual results: --help hides all options and/or --help usage/hosted-engine's options are syntactically bizzare Expected results: sane style Additional info: