[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 045 Add DNS record modification command

[Jakub Hrozek]

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On 04/04/2011 03:38 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> I think that this is kinda hard to do in CLI..in GUI the user can
>> > easily pick a record to mod, but for CLI case I would actually lean
>> > towards the approach Martin took in his original patch..that is, a
>> > -mod replaces the entries altogether.
> Why is it hard ?
> You just need to provide means to delete and add records in the same
> command.
> 
> ipa dnsrecord-mod DNSZONE DNSRECORD --del-a-rec=1.2.3.4 \
> --add-a-rec=4.3.2.1
> 
> to replace all:
> ipa dnsrecord-mod DNSZONE DNSRECORD --del-all --add-a-rec=4.3.2.1
> 
> 

I was not trying to say it is not technically doable, but it's hard to
use. Imagine how the --help output would look like, if for every RR we
would also generate a --del equivalent..even now the output almost
doesn't fit on screen.
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