Re: [Libguestfs] [Bug 1046905] New: RFE: add argument to virt-sysprep to disable individual default operations

On Friday 27 December 2013 10:58:15 you wrote: > virt-sysprep either runs with all default operations or a selected > list of operations with the --enable argument. A few times I've > found I'd like to use the default list, but minus one or two > operations in particular, however there's no easy way to specify > this. > > A --disable argument that took the default operation list and skipped > selected operations would be useful. A rough idea I had about this is adding a new --operations parameter, which would take a a comma-separated list of operations (just like the current --enable), but with the following differences: - a leading minus would disable the specified operation - it would recognize the meta-keywords "all" (for all the available operations) and "defaults" (for the ones enabled by default) Processing the list of operations would add/remove them from the current set of operations, bailing out whether the resulting set is empty (just like right now --enable rejects an empty string). This way, you could write e.g.: - --operations defaults,-hostname,user-account runs the default ones but not "hostname", and the non-default "user-account" - --operations all easy shortcut to run all the available operations and so on. --enable could just be an alias for --operations, or this new syntax could be added directly to --enable directly. Maybe I'm over-engineering, but IMHO seems a better way than potentially adding a --disable argument and deal with the order of --enable & --disable and their interactions.