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

[dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/39459; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/39459: etcupdate can't parse directory names with special
 chars
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:47:41 +0200

 On Thu,  4 Sep 2008 23:50:00 +0000 (UTC)
 paul%whooppee.com@localhost wrote:
 
 > >Description:
 >      etcupdate cannot parse "-s <dir>" when <dir> has special chars
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >      Execute the following command:
 > 
 >      {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.
 
 Kind regards
 dieter