** Changed in: vm-builder (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Opinion
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1044837
Title:
vmbuilder should accept an empty destination
Thanks. That is what I thought you were asking for. There are several
downsides to your proposal as I see it: 1. having extra files in the
destination directory which were not created by vmbuilder will be more
confusing, 2. 'if something does not work (due to permissions or other
issues),
Sorry for the unclear description of the bug.
The manpage says:
-o, --overwrite
Force overwrite of destination directory if it already exist.
[default: False]
But apparently vmbuilder does not overwrite it. It tries to delete it (which
fails with mountpoints) and then
Thanks for reporting this bug.
Adding such a check seems to complicate the existing check for little
real gain. If /srv/kvm/mysql is a mount point, is there a reason why
you could not use '/srv/kvm/mysql/mysql' as the target directory? (If
your use case isn't easily solved that way, then I'm
