In order to reuse the existing subcommand infrastructure to display various general-purpose help topics, add a dummy 'help_topic' subcommand and usage string. This allows users to invoke general help topics by the natural form 'wic help <topic>' even though topic doesn't correspond to a real subcommand.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]> --- scripts/wic | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/wic b/scripts/wic index 2d3fd09..00eddfd 100755 --- a/scripts/wic +++ b/scripts/wic @@ -226,6 +226,19 @@ def wic_list_subcommand(args, usage_str): sys.exit(1) +def wic_help_topic_subcommand(args, usage_str): + """ + Command-line handling for help-only 'subcommands'. This is + essentially a dummy command that doesn nothing but allow users to + use the existing subcommand infrastructure to display help on a + particular topic not attached to any particular subcommand. + """ + pass + + +wic_help_topic_usage = """ +""" + subcommands = { "create": [wic_create_subcommand, wic_create_usage, -- 1.8.3.1 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
