[Bug 289769] Re: VMBuilder.exception

2008-10-28 Thread BUGabundo
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 11:58:51 Nick Barcet wrote: > As the man page states, not all options are show there and only the use of > sudo vmbuilder will show all options. You mean "$ sudo vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --help" ? That is so not obvious to users. Who issues sudo just to get help? and why

Re: [Bug 289769] Re: VMBuilder.exception

2008-10-28 Thread Nick Barcet
BUGabundo wrote: > I looked for it, but there is no mention of this open in MAN. > Should I file a new bug for it? As the man page states, not all options are show there and only the use of sudo vmbuilder will show all options. So I do not think that a new bug is appropriate. > Also ubuntu-vmb

[Bug 289769] Re: VMBuilder.exception

2008-10-27 Thread BUGabundo
On Monday 27 October 2008 13:31:07 Nick Barcet wrote: > there is indeed the --iso option to deal with offline mode I looked for it, but there is no mention of this open in MAN. Should I file a new bug for it? Also ubuntu-vmbuilber as no MAN at all, either. -- BUGabundo :o) -- vmbuilder shoul

[Bug 289769] Re: VMBuilder.exception

2008-10-27 Thread Nick Barcet
Well, there is indeed the --iso option to deal with offline mode, and if you are going to need a full package repo, why not use apt-mirror? I do agree that we need better error handling for network errors. I'll re qualify this bug as such. -- VMBuilder.exception https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 289769] Re: VMBuilder.exception

2008-10-27 Thread BUGabundo
What this means is that vmbuilder needs a network connection, and I was offline at the moment. vmbuilder needs to handle that exception better. Also it needs to allow the use of offline packages, iso, etc ** Changed in: ubuntu-vm-builder (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => New -- VMBuilder.excep

[Bug 289769] Re: VMBuilder.exception

2008-10-27 Thread Nick Barcet
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and help us make Ubuntu better. It seems however that the problem you are encountering is coming from the release file from apt-cache, which is generally due to a network or mirror problem and there is not much to do in vmbuilder to fix this. I am