Missing options for ltsp-update-image

[Roland Giesler]

The source for this script shows the following options are recognised, yet they are not all documented in the man page.

  -a, --arch Architecture of this image. Default is arch of the host.
  -b, --base Base of ltsp chroot. Default is /opt/ltsp if unspecified.
  -d, --tftpbootdir Subdir within tftpdir where ltsp kernels are. Defaults
                      to "ltsp".
  -e, --exclude-dirs Exclude those dirs from the image.
  -f, --force Force recalculating ports for all chroots, update of all
                      kernels, fresh pxelinux.cfg files and restart nbd-server.
  -h, --help This message.
  -i, --image-only Update image only and do not attempt to adjust ports or
                      services.
  -I, --ipappend Pass IPAPPEND value to bootloader.
  -n, --no-comp Do not compress the image.
  -o, --options Pass kernel command line options to all config files.
  -O, --openbsd-inetd Use old inetd method instead of named NBD exports.
  -p, --port Port you wish this nbd image to communicate on. Default
                      is 2000.
  -s, --skip-image Do not generate an image, but perform other actions.
  -S, --server Specify the NBD server IP.
  -T, --timeout Add timeout to bootloader.

I'd add them, but don't have editing rights there. Could this be corrected?

[Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg)]

The help output and the man page you're talking about refer to a very old LTSP version.
Both of them have been rewritten last year, so they're already fixed.
Many of those options are not supported anymore, though, because other ways to do things were implemented.

[Roland Giesler (lifeboy)]

It may be old, but the manpage has version for each release. On 12.04 (which is the latest LTS version), the options exist in the source but not in the manpage. Adding this in will save people losts of time at least.

Therefor I don't think this should be invalid, at least not for the 12.04 manpage.