On Tuesday, 09.02.2016 at 14:44, Antti Kantee wrote: > Hi, > > Per recent discussion with David, it became clear that the ability to pass > rumprun-bake config directives on the command line is desirable (IIRC it was > already proposed in the discussion last year, but there was no strong use > case back then). The new use case is genfs'd components. Without command > line parameters, you have to create a config file, assimilate the config you > actually want (which, mind you, cannot be hardcoded since only the user > knows what it is), add the fs image, and pass that config via -c to > rumprun-bake, and potentially remove the config afterwards. With command > line directives, it's a oneliner.
ISTR the original use case I proposed was exactly this (genfs), but we didn't yet have genfs back then :-) > Notably, the old command line syntax for rumprun-bake does not change in > backwards-incompatible ways, but the config file format does. I did not add > compat code to deal with the old format. It should be possible if a large > number of people demand it, but I'd much rather just ride the "experimental" > tag we forgot to remove. I doubt there are many (if any) custom config > format deployments at the time. +1 > Thoughts? (LGTM is a good one, but others accepted too ;) LGTM -mato
