[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 764 update ipa-client-install man page

Martin Kosek mkosek at redhat.com
Mon Apr 11 08:39:17 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 13:07 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Martin Kosek wrote:
> > I don't think it is a good idea to have this option in
> > ipa-client-install --help at all.
> >
> > Since it is not intended to be used by the user and we just use it in
> > our scripts why would we want to have it in ipa-client-install --help or
> > man pages? We could just hide it using help=optparse.SUPPRESS_HELP
> > attribute for the option and document it only in the installation script
> > source.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 17:23 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> >> Make it clear that --on-master is for install scripts only.
> >>
> >> ticket 1050
> 
> An excellent idea. See new patch.
> 
> rob

Nicely done - we won't confuse the user anymore.

I have a one more issue I didn't notice in the first review - why should
we allow non-root to run ipa-client-install? It fails in this case. I
guess this change slipped in the patch only by accident.

Martin




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