[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#672349: puppetca: Wrong option in help, --subject-alt-name versus --dns_alt_names

[micah anderson]

On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:34:46 +0200, Sebastien Koechlin <seb.debianpkg at koocotte.org> wrote:
> Package: puppetmaster
> Version: 2.6.2-5+squeeze5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> "puppet cert --help" and "puppetca --help" both report:
> 
> 	(...)
> 	generate:    Generate a certificate for a named client. A
> 	             certificate/keypair will be generated for each client
> 	             named on the command line.
> 	
> 	When generate is used the additional `--subject-alt-name` argument
> 	can be used.  The names, separated by `:`, passed will be added as
> 	the subjectAltName of the final certificate.
> 
> But --subject-alt-name does not exists, it is called --dns_alt_names

It seems that this is not an issue with the newer versions of puppet, so
I have not filed this upstream.

micah