Description of problem: Users of the legacy sysreport tool often wanted to disable "rpm -Va" data gathering due to the amount of time it consumes. The "-norpm" option was provided to allow this. This option has been removed from sosreport in favour of the plugin interface, e.g. "sysreport -norpm" now becomes "sosreport -k rpm.rpmva=off". The sosreport tool now also accepts a list of plugins to disable via the -n/--skip-plugins options. If a user is unaware of this and passes "-norpm" sosreport skips the non-existant "orpm" plugin and does not alert the user to the fact they have passed an invalid option. For users transitioning from sysreport this is confusing. It would be preferable to emit either a general warning about a non-existant plugin or special-case the legacy sysreport options (-norpm seems to be the only one that could cause confusion as sysreport does not currently use -d (-dmidecode in sysreport)). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sos-1.7-6.1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. # sosreport -norpm 2. ps ax | grep rpm Actual results: See sosreport running "rpm -Va" Expected results: A warning that the -norpm option from sysreport is not supported in sosreport. Additional info:
Fixed in upstream repository. Thanks. -- Navid
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0663.html