[PATCH] Deprecate the 'cmdline' command

David Cantrell dcantrell at redhat.com
Tue Aug 14 14:20:17 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 02:15:55PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 08/13/2012 07:04 AM, Chris Lumens wrote:
> >>For now make it set text mode instead of erroring.
> >
> >What's the plan for cmdline mode in the end?
> 
> There is only one text interface, and it's suitable for everything
> from serial to s390x to PC console.  In F19 / RHEL8 use of "cmdline"
> in kickstart would throw an error.  It'd be ignored on the command
> line as well.  "text" and "inst.text" are the true options.

We need to at least honor 'cmdline' as a synonym or no-op, whatever is
appropriate, otherwise we will be closing the same bug for 10 years.

cmdline users expect the install to suppress all interaction.  Even if we do
fix things up so that the installs can be interactive on terminals where
they were not at one point, people have been trained to know that 'cmdline'
means run the install and take a default and never ask me any question.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Supervisor, Installer Engineering Team
Red Hat, Inc. | Westford, MA | EST5EDT


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