Re: misc/39459: etcupdate can't parse directory names with special chars

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, dieter roelants wrote:

> >    {107} etcupdate -al -s 
> /build/release-2008-09-04_20:04:46/amd64/binary/sets/etc.tgz
> >    *** Cannot understand -s 
> /build/release-2008-09-04_20:04:46/amd64/binary/sets/etc.tgz
>
> I don't think this counts as a bug, since it's documented in the man page:
>
>  -s tgzfile     The location of one or more set files (or ``tgz
>    files'') from a binary distribution of NetBSD.  Each set file
>    is a compressed archive containing reference files.  More than
>    one set file may be specified, either by using a single -s option
>    with a colon-separated list of tgzfile names, or by using multiple
>    -s options; this is likely to be useful to specify the locations
>    of both the etc.tgz and xetc.tgz set files.  Note that file
>    names may not contain embedded colon (`:') characters, because
>    that would conflict with the use of the colon character to
>    delimit multiple file names with a single argument.

Ah!  That will teach me to RTFM!  :)

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