[katello-devel] New katello-cli rpm package

[Bryan Kearney]

On 07/25/2011 10:48 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> Team,
>
> as of today we have brand new spec in the cli/ directory. Do not forget
> to run "tito tag" when you make changes in the cli.
>
> Current dependencies are:
>
> Requires: python-iniparse
> Requires: python-simplejson
> Requires: m2crypto
> Requires: python-kerberos
>
> While I was working on the package I noticed the help2man program (incl.
> in Fedora) that converts optparse output as a manpage. I tried it with
> Katello and it works.
>
> I could create a script that would go through all the actions and all
> the commands and create man pages like katello.8, katello-user.8,
> katello-user-create.8 etc.
>
> I could convert these to HTML and install everything into appropriate
> places (/usr/man, /usr/share/doc). We could also put HTML pages on the
> main katello.org site (and regenerate them recurrently).
>
> Third good thing is I could apply the same script to pulp and contribute
> it there. Katello use the same approach as pulp-client and pulp-admin.
> It should work for them as well.
>
> Bryan do you think it worth the time? My guess is several hours since I
> need to write recursive bash script that will go through all the
> actions/commands. I'd need to fix one bug in CLI first too.
>
> ps - there is already some optparse python script but since we use like
> 15 optparse objects in the CLI (there is no single one) this approach
> wont work
>
> LZ
>
I will put this on the backlog. Lets finish up what is in the sprint now.

-- bk