Re: [Libguestfs] [libguestfs] RFE: virt-builder ability to print definition for single template (new option or expand --notes) (#20)
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 03:51:51PM -0800, Ryan Sawhill Aroha wrote:
The `virt-builder --notes <TEMPLATE>` command is nice, but I
really wish it printed the full template definition, eg, something like this:
```
$ virt-builder --notes centos-70
[centos-70]
name=CentOS 70
osinfo=centos70
arch=x86_64
file=centos-70xz
checksum=cf9ae295f633fbd04e575eeca16f372e933c70c3107c44eb06864760d04354aa94b4f356bfc9a598c138e687304a52e96777e4467e7db1ec0cb5b2d2ec61affc
format=raw
size=6442450944
compressed_size=213203844
expand=/dev/sda3
notes=CentOS 70
This CentOS image contains only unmodified @Core group packages
It is thus very minimal The kickstart and install script can be
found in the libguestfs source tree:
builder/website/centossh
```
One problem with this is that the 'index' format isn't the only
metadata format we now support. (SimpleStreams is another).
However there is an intermediate format we use internally, and those
fields could be printed by --notes or some other mechanism.
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/builder/index.mli
This would be suitable for an RFE in Bugzilla.
Or maybe it could be like `virt-builder --list-format long --list`
(all prettified), but only for a particular template
I think normal users need this option to be able to check the
`osinfo=` value for use with `virt-install` without having to
scroll/grep through all their templates
We definitely need a way to get at the osinfo information more easily.
Rich.
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