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Bug 698074 - cli: nmcli connection help: missing documentation for add COMMON_OPTIONS
cli: nmcli connection help: missing documentation for add COMMON_OPTIONS
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: nmcli
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks: tracker-nmcli
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-15 18:19 UTC by Pavel Simerda
Modified: 2013-05-14 12:46 UTC
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GNOME target: ---
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Description Pavel Simerda 2013-04-15 18:19:59 UTC 
'nmcli connection help' prints short documentation for the 'nmcli connection add' command, among others. It says 'add' is used with COMMON_OPTIONS, TYPE_SPECIFIC_OPTIONS and IP_OPTIONS, but COMMON_OPTIONS are not defined.

Either there are no COMMON_OPTIONS and this placeholder should be removed (and the type option repeated for each type in conjunction with the type name), or COMMON_OPTIONS should be defined so that the user can build up a correct command line.

A working configuration: 

[connection]
id=Bridge
uuid=b17b17eb-3695-4609-963c-7d4570faab10
interface-name=testbridge
type=bridge

[bridge]
interface-name=testbridge
Comment 1 Jiri Klimes 2013-04-22 17:28:42 UTC 
There was a typos and error in docs, but now COMMON_OPTIONS are described properly.
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2013-05-02 15:59:58 UTC 
NM bugzilla reorganization... sorry for the bug spam.