[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#924184: no help for download template?

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Le dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 07:43:30+0100, Harald Dunkel a écrit :
> Package: lxc
> Version: 1:3.1.0+really3.0.3-5
> 
> Running
> 	lxc-create -t download -- --help
> 
> I had expected to get usage information about the download template,
> but instead I got a huge list of images. Next it showed
> 
> 	Distribution:
> 
> and got unresponsive. Exit with ^C or ^D. Apparently it has created a
> new container directory /var/lib/lxc/--help.
> 
> This is unexpected. The -- is supposed to separate the template
> options from the options to lxc-create itself. There should have
> either been an error message about the missing "-n name" option,
> or any kind of usage message.

Hi,

From lxc-create(1) manpage:

       -- template-options
                     This will pass template-options to the template as
                     arguments. To see the list of options supported by
                     the template, you can run lxc-create -t TEMPLATE
                     -h.

So this is the mechanic to get the help for a specific template.

That said, the fact that it attempts to create a container named --help
is quite weird. I suspect it's the result of the change the developers
of lxc made to make lxc-XXX command accepting the container's name as a
positional argument. As lxc-download doesn't recognise --help as an
argument, it became positional and got interpreted as the name of the
container.

Best regards,

-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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