[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0072] Provide ipa-client-advise tool

[Dmitri Pal]

On 06/19/2013 10:46 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 06/19/2013 03:03 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>>> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>>>> On 19.6.2013 14:47, Dmitri Pal wrote:
>>>>> On 06/19/2013 08:02 AM, Tomas Babej wrote:
>>>>>> Do you have something particular in mind?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tomas
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>>>>>
>>>>> ipa-config-advisor ?
>>>>>
>>>> IMO we should stick to a verb in the name, so ipa-config-advise.
>>> Then it is better to be simpler, ipa-advise is a nice name.
>> Isn't that too simple? Are you trying to create an all knowing Siri-like
>> advisor for IPA? If I am a user, I would really not know what "ipa-advise"
>> means and what advise could it give to me.
>>
>> # ipa-advise "what pair of socks should I take for today?"
>>
>> ipa-config-advise was better IMHO.
> then as soon as you need to 'advise' on something that is not config related it becomes akward, also ipa-config-advise is much longer to type and 'config' doesn't really add much.
>
> As for the user 'man ipa-advise' will neatly explain what it will advise about, I think that is sufficient.
> Nobody will expect 'ipa'-advise to provide info about non-ipa related stuff anyway.
>
> As for the actual command line options I do wonder as well why you need a --setup or --about option at all.
>
> ipa-advise 'topic' is sufficient imo.
>
> options that may make sense are things like --verbose so that you can have a small excerpt with the short form and a much longer text with --verbose if necessary. Although maybe we should just reference man pages for longer text and not try to create a new manpage substitute, we certainly should always provide all the content in man pages first.
>
> Simo.
>

So if I want an advise about Solaris 11 client configuration would it
look like this?

ipa-advise config --client --distro=solaris  --version=11

or

ipa-advise client-config-solrais-11


-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
Red Hat Inc.


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