This change removes the `llama model` and `llama download` subcommands
from the CLI, replacing them with recommendations to use the Hugging
Face CLI instead.
Rationale for this change:
- The model management functionality was largely duplicating what
Hugging Face CLI already provides, leading to unnecessary maintenance
overhead (except the download source from Meta?)
- Maintaining our own implementation required fixing bugs and keeping up
with changes in model repositories and download mechanisms
- The Hugging Face CLI is more mature, widely adopted, and better
maintained
- This allows us to focus on the core Llama Stack functionality rather
than reimplementing model management tools
Changes made:
- Removed all model-related CLI commands and their implementations
- Updated documentation to recommend using `huggingface-cli` for model
downloads
- Removed Meta-specific download logic and statements
- Simplified the CLI to focus solely on stack management operations
Users should now use:
- `huggingface-cli download` for downloading models
- `huggingface-cli scan-cache` for listing downloaded models
This is a breaking change as it removes previously available CLI
commands.
Signed-off-by: Sébastien Han <seb@redhat.com>
# What does this PR do?
user can simply set env vars in the beginning of the command.`FOO=BAR
llama stack run ...`
## Test Plan
Run
TELEMETRY_SINKS=coneol uv run --with llama-stack llama stack build
--distro=starter --image-type=venv --run
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# What does this PR do?
Finding these issues while moving to github pages.
## Test Plan
uv run --group docs sphinx-autobuild docs/source docs/build/html
--write-all
As the title says. Distributions is in, Templates is out.
`llama stack build --template` --> `llama stack build --distro`. For
backward compatibility, the previous option is kept but results in a
warning.
Updated `server.py` to remove the "config_or_template" backward
compatibility since it has been a couple releases since that change.
