Bug 959574

Summary:	Remove --type from sub-man register --help in CLI (possibly remove entirely)
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Matt Reid <mreid>
Component:	subscription-manager	Assignee:	candlepin-bugs
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	IDM QE LIST <seceng-idm-qe-list>
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Version:	5.10	CC:	bkearney
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Description Matt Reid 2013-05-03 20:29:04 UTC

Description of problem:
While we offer --type as a registration option in CLI, letting you set unittype as something other than 'system', it sounds like we're not expecting anyone to actually use it. If we don't want anyone to know they can mess with it, it seems like we shouldn't talk about it in --help. Does it make sense to strip it out of 'subscription-manager register --help'?

If nobody uses it (it sounded like maybe QA used to in the past but possibly not anymore?), we may want to consider removing it entirely.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
subscription-manager 1.8+

Additional Info:
Description for --type is "the type of unit to register, defaults to system"

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2013-05-03 20:48:00 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 2 Bryan Kearney 2013-05-07 20:00:43 UTC

It can be used for things like hypervisors, but not for things like RHUI unless you really know what you are doing. I am going to leave it as is.