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List:       cobbler
Subject:    Re: --in-place not working as expected
From:       James Cammarata <jimi () sngx ! net>
Date:       2010-07-07 11:24:57
Message-ID: 2f1e8c59be074d8cbb38995b8461d965 () sngx ! net
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On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:19:44 +0100, Tom Brown <tom@ng23.net> wrote:
>> Second, --in-place really only makes sense on an edit. Since you're
>> adding
>> and you know all the values ahead of time, just combine your two blocks
>> into one:
>>
>> $ cobbler system add --name=larry --ksmeta="hostname=larry role=one
>> type=two"
>>
>> It's shorter and easier :)
> 
> yes - but a 'human' does not fill these values in as such and only
> some systems have the 'type' so it was slightly more slick for me to
> edit ksmeta rather than add all values at once, even if on the add
> rather than edit.

Understood, I've had coworkers run into this several times myself.  Like I
said, being able to specify options like that twice should at the least
emit a warning, if not error out completely.

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