make linaro-fetch-image more usable

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

I do not use Linaro releases too often so I do not know names of devboards, hwpacks, images. But I also do not like going to {snapshots,releases}.linaro.org and dig though them in search of images and hwpacks.

So I tried linaro-fetch-image-ui but it failed after ~hour or work. Maybe because udisks was not able to notice my sdcard reader but thats other bug.

I want to use linaro-fetch-image tool to fetch hwpack + image for me and I will play with linaro-media-create by my self (not that I like it but at least I know the tool). But there is this insane amount of switches which are required and no help for poor user like me.

Not to mention that finally I do not know how to name "i.mx53 quickstart" board - is it mx53loco or lt-mx5 or yet-another-name. Same goes for images names etc.

"./linaro-fetch-image -w mx53loco -a snapshot -i ubuntu-desktop -b latest -p lt-mx5-oneiric" is what I tried but it failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./linaro-fetch-image", line 79, in <module>
    main()
  File "./linaro-fetch-image", line 64, in main
    image_url, hwpack_url = db.get_image_and_hwpack_urls(config.args)
  File "/home/hrw/HDD/devel/canonical/linaro-image-tools/linaro_image_tools/fetch_image.py", line 1455, in get_image_and_hwpack_urls
    args['image'], past_date, [args['hwpack']])
  File "/home/hrw/HDD/devel/canonical/linaro-image-tools/linaro_image_tools/fetch_image.py", line 1324, in get_binary_builds_on_day_from_db
    date = re.sub('-', '', date)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 151, in sub
    return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
TypeError: expected string or buffer

Can we get something like "linaro-fetch-image --show-supported-devices --show-supported-images" options? I would love to do that and then type:

linaro-fetch-image --device mx53loco --image ubuntu-desktop --hwpack lt-mx53loco --release snapshot --build latest

or sth like that - but give me way to check which options are possible.

[Guilherme Salgado (salgado)]

I think you can get the list of supported boards from
linaro-media-create --help, but this is indeed something we should fix
-- it should also show up when you run l-f-i --help.

 status triaged
 importance medium

[Milo Casagrande (milo)]

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