I had this frustration, too, when doing this the first time. FYI (and for the Googlers who stumble across this in the future), this patch [1] fixes the --max_number thing.
[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/175890/ On 7/27/15, 8:45 AM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 07/26/2015 01:15 PM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: >> So, the Kilo release notes say: >> >> nova-manage migrate-flavor-data >> >> But nova-manage says: >> >> nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data >> >> But that says: >> >> Missing arguments: max_number >> >> And the help says: >> >> usage: nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data [-h] >> [--max-number <number>] >> >> Which indicates that --max-number is optional, but whatever, so you >> try: >> >> nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data --max-number 100 >> >> And that says: >> >> Missing arguments: max_number >> >> So just for kicks you try: >> >> nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data --max_number 100 >> >> And that says: >> >> nova-manage: error: unrecognized arguments: --max_number >> >> So finally you try: >> >> nova-manage db migrate_flavor_data 100 >> >> And holy poorly implement client, Batman, it works. > >LOL. Well, the important thing is that the thing eventually worked. ;P > >In all seriousness, though, yeah, the nova-manage CLI tool is entirely >different from the main python-novaclient CLI tool. It's not been a >priority whatsoever to clean it up, but I think it would be some pretty >low-hanging fruit to make the CLI consistent with the design of, say, >python-openstackclient... > >Perhaps something we should develop a backlog spec for. > >Best, >-jay > >_______________________________________________ >Mailing list: >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org >Unsubscribe : >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
