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.
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Pino Toscano