Re: pkg/56733: mtree bug processing filenames containing asterisks

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen%complete.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56733; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen%complete.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/56733: mtree bug processing filenames containing asterisks
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:48:47 -0600

 On Tue, Mar 01 2022, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 
 >  Am Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 01:35:00PM +0000 schrieb jgoerzen%complete.org@localhost:
 >  > Additionally, the support for wildcards in the mtree format is not documented that I can see, and probably should be.  Or perhaps it should be removed, since AFAICT, no tools are generating mtree files intentionally using this feature.
 >
 >  It is documented. But mtree -c should quote them, at least if the mtree
 >  variant supports quoting.
 
 Hi Joerg,
 
 I was creating the specification with mtree -c.  I wasn't using -C.  The
 command I used was:
 
 mtree -c -K "uid,gid,sha256" -p pathname
 
 I can confirm that * was definitely not quoted in the output.  Other
 characters, such as spaces, were.
 
 - John