[Thincrust-devel] ec2-creator merge into appliance-tools

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Tue Sep 2 12:48:36 UTC 2008


Joey Boggs wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> Nice work joey. Couple of comments:
>>
>> - Can you add a -n attribute so I can name it what I want?
> Yep can add that in easily

Great!

>> - is there any way to autodetect the inputtype based on the imagefile?
> I'm thinking there is based on using the output of "file $filename"  I'm 
> playing around with glade/pygtk and perhaps adding in a options simple 
> gui interface in shouldn't be too hard.

Dont worry about GUI yet. Lets focus on more commmand line features and 
the whitelisting.

> 
>> - There is a slight type in the hlp for inputtype.
>>
> I'll clean that up, the manualdir feature was going to be for someone 
> that had a directory filled with their custom / contents and just wants 
> to bundle it into EC2 format, should I still pursue that route?

How much extra effort is this? It it is not much, it sounds like a good 
idea.




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