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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23/04/14 09:31, Julian Edwards wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 Apr 2014 11:42:57 Gavin Panella wrote:
>> No, but Tycho does care a fig, and he's speaking for the community cloud
>> installer. It needs to be able to run m-i-p-f and know that it has
>> finished. There's no good way to do that right now via the API. We
>> should add it, but in the meantime it would be sensible to preserve
>> invocation from the command-line. Also, for better or worse, m-i-p-f
>> forms part of MAAS's API, in a broad sense of the term.
> 
> I'm not suggesting that we get rid of it until there's a replacement.
> 
> I would be open to keeping it provided the settings are still in the DB (ie 
> make it a dedicated api script).
> 
> Ultimately, external systems should not be relying on internal scripts that 
> are not part of the official API surface.

It turns out that we have an API call to query available boot images, so
once the import is kicked off via the API, it can then poll for completion.

So unless I am missing something, there's no blocker to getting rid of
the command line script?

J