Bug 990934 - Document that '--distro' CLI param overrides '--tag' and '--family'
Summary: Document that '--distro' CLI param overrides '--tag' and '--family'
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Beaker
Classification: Retired
Component: Doc
Version: 0.13
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: beaker-dev-list
QA Contact: tools-bugs
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Reported: 2013-08-01 08:58 UTC by wangjing
Modified: 2020-10-21 14:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-10-21 14:16:05 UTC
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Comment 2 Dan Callaghan 2013-08-01 22:40:06 UTC 
It doesn't make sense to use --tag as well as --distro, because --distro names a specific distro whereas --tag combined with --family picks the latest distro with that tag. So they are mutually exclusive.

However the --help output and man page could be more explicit about this, and the option parser should probably point out the error.
Comment 3 Nick Coghlan 2013-09-03 01:31:52 UTC 
Making this a docs bug. I don't think it's worth the backwards compatibility risk of making the options mutually exclusive rather than just documenting that --distro overrides the others.
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