On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:27:51AM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: > Actually, that helped, as said before, but it is not clear, or even > evident, that --debootstrap/--rpmstrap must be given from the manpage,
I think it is - from "man xen-create-image": --cut-- INSTALLATION METHODS The new guest images may be installed in several different ways: 1. With the B<debootstrap> command. 2. With the B<rpmstrap> command. 3. By copying an existing installation. 4. By untarring a file containing a previous installation. These different methods can be selected by either the command line arguments, or settings in the configuration file. --cut-- (Hmm that should be "--debootstrap" option", and "--rpmstrap option" respectively. Will update that.) > and it also seems unreasonable - you can't install sarge/etch with > rpmstrap, and you can't install centos or fedora with debootstrap. Bu > maybe you are working on a secret dpkg for centos?! :) I guess that is true - but you might want to install "sarge" by untarring, or copying a previously created image. So "dist=sarge" cannot be assumed to mean "debootstrap". Thats the main reason why these are distinct, and mutually exclusive, options. > Severity still important in my opionion because the tool isn't useable > without major tweaking around with all the options. I will update the code to ensure at least one option is supplied for the installation method, which I will regard as closing this bug. (ie in your example it would output a message and exit: "please choose one of the following options: --debootstrap - Install with debootstrap --rpmstrap - Install the dist with rpmstrap --copy - Copy from the selected directory .. etc") However I disagree utterly with the "major tweaking", because this option could be specified in the configuration file as the comments indicate. I have to assume that people attempting to use software will examine the configuration file. Otherwise you could claim that apt-get is broken because the default configuration file doesn't point to a local mirror without "major tweaking". .. still I'm glad you got it working now :) Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]