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

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

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

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: misc/39459: etcupdate can't parse directory names with special
  chars
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:10:43 -0700 (PDT)

 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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