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On 29/10/2024 15:48, Dean Marx wrote:
> I may have just misunderstood how the command line args are supposed to 
> be used. I'm assuming based on your response that --config-file is only 
> used for when the tarball/tree is located on the host, versus --tarball 
> or --dpdk-tree being for when they're located on the remote server?
> 
> If this is the case my apologies, I was setting it up incorrectly. And 
> if so:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Dean Marx <dmarx@iol.unh.edu <mailto:dmarx@iol.unh.edu>>

No, sorry for confusing you Dean! --tarball and --dpdk-tree are just 
overrides for their respective fields in the configuration file. You can 
do everything by using just the configuration file, without the need for 
CLI arguments.