get_dossier and add-on options

Greetings,

 

I came across this behavior that I found interesting and thought to post it here.

 

I had to use get_dossier to activate a license and two add-ons.

 

I read https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K2595.

 

Somehow, I misread this line in the article:

 

get_dossier -b ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDEFG -a ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG,ABCDEFG-BBBBBBB

 

and I wound up giving this command instead (note the double -a and no comma):

 

get_dossier -b ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDEFG -a ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG -a ABCDEFG-BBBBBBB

 

Despite this, I received a dossier with no error message whatsoever so I thought everything was fine. I generated a license which upon further inspection had only one of the two add-ons.

 

So now my question is why did get_dossier not tell me my command was incorrect? I was also wondering why it would cleanly omit one add-on (the first one I think). The F5 activation page happily generated a license with one add-on, so I'm thinking there was nothing wrong with the dossier generated.

 

Has anyone had other similar experiences with get_dossier?