similar to: [PATCH] virt-rescue rewrite in OCaml

Add a new Getopt module to mllib, to parse command line arguments with handlers close to the ones used with Arg, but using getopt(3) (actually getopt_long_only) to do the real parsing. This allow us to provide options for OCaml tools with a syntax similar to the C tools, and use the additional features getopt offers and Arg does not. Do a single-step conversion of Common_utils and all the OCaml

v3 -> v4: - Pushed the first patch upstream since it was ACKed. - Prevent use of M except for the special virt-v2v options. - Sort the options after added --help etc. - Make corresponding fixes to the tests. Rich.

v2 -> v3: - Add M variant and test it. Rich.

Store the machine-readable flag globally, just like done for verbose/debug/etc, and enhance create_standard_options to provide --machine-readable automatically. --- common/mlstdutils/std_utils.ml | 4 ++++ common/mlstdutils/std_utils.mli | 7 +++++-- common/mltools/tools_utils.ml | 7 ++++++- common/mltools/tools_utils.mli | 5 ++++- 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff

v1 -> v2: - Further fixes to Getopt int parsing. - Completed the L/S changes. - Fixed the test suite so it passes now. Also we don't need the special-case tests for 64 bit arch. Rich.

In Std_utils we already extend Char and String. These commits take it a little further by extending List and adding a new Option submodule. All basically simple refactoring. Rich.

Add a new Getopt module to mllib, to parse command line arguments with handlers close to the ones used with Arg, but using getopt(3) (actually getopt_long_only) to do the real parsing. This allow us to provide options for OCaml tools with a syntax similar to the C tools, and use the additional features getopt offers and Arg does not. Getopt now handles every part of the command line handling,

This time including the first commit ...

The 'may' function is a higher-order function (HOF) that replaces: match x with | None -> () | Some x -> f x with: may f x The idea comes from lablgtk (OCaml Gtk bindings) where it is widely used. If this change is clearer than previous code, then this could be used in many more places. However I previously steered clear from using HOFs like this because they can be

Setting timezone is easy. It turns out to be almost impossible to set keyboard layout in virt-builder sanely, so I have added some examples instead. Coming up next, setting languages in virt-builder (clue: very very very hard). Rich.

Depends on the previous 5 patches that modified virt-rescue to work without direct mode: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-March/msg00017.html Rich.

There's not going to be an easy way to present this patch. It's huge and interconnected. Anyway, what it does is lay the groundwork for a new tool which I'm calling 'virt-customize'. virt-customize is virt-builder, but without the part where it downloads a template from a respository. Just the part where it customizes the template, that is, installing packages, editing

On error, point also to the man page of the current tool in addition to '$TOOL --help'. --- mllib/getopt-c.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mllib/getopt-c.c b/mllib/getopt-c.c index bf40f91..3efd5d3 100644 --- a/mllib/getopt-c.c +++ b/mllib/getopt-c.c @@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ cleanup_option_list (void *ptr) static void __attribute__((noreturn))

Rather complex patch to solve a small user error. Warn if the user is doing something like: virt-builder -o /dev/sdX1 Rich.

The second patch is obviously not complete yet - for discussion only. Rich.

This supersedes the two previous patch series: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-March/msg00017.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-March/msg00046.html Rich.

Miscellaneous refactoring, but the main one is to rename mllib/ as common/mltools/ Rich.

Version 1 of the patch, for discussion, but not to be applied. It does work, but needs a lot more testing. This removes all the psychopathic gettextify cruft, and replaces it with a 99 line Makefile.am. A large win, I think. The third patch implements gettext support in the OCaml tools. The fourth patch is just for illustration. It shows the consequent changes to libguestfs.pot and the po

v7 was: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-June/msg00169.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-June/msg00184.html I believe this addresses all comments received so far. Also it now passes a test where I compared about 100 disk images processed with old and new virt-inspector binaries. The output is identical in all cases except one which is caused by a bug in blkid

v5: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2017-June/msg00065.html Since v5, this now implements inspection almost completely for Linux and Windows guests. Rich.