Bug 231158 – portage-2.2_rc1 does not handle spaces in files with fetch restriction

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2008-07-08 12:43:34 UTC]

SRC_URI="TrueCrypt ${PV} Source.tar.gz"

stat("/usr/portage/distfiles/Source.tar.gz", 0x7fff38f7bdc0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory

[Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2008-07-08 12:44:21 UTC]

Created attachment 159866 [details]
truecrypt-6.0.ebuild

[Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2008-07-08 15:17:46 UTC]

spaces are used as separators in metadata variables.

[Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2008-07-09 08:58:13 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> spaces are used as separators in metadata variables.

Marius,

with due respect, and I do respect you a lot, this sounds like a excuse. It sounds like an internal design consideration rather than a specification problem.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2008-07-09 10:14:36 UTC]

Well, one possible solution would be to add single quotes, like this:

SRC_URI="'TrueCrypt ${PV} Source.tar.gz'"

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2009-06-30 09:47:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Well, one possible solution would be to add single quotes, like this:
> 
> SRC_URI="'TrueCrypt ${PV} Source.tar.gz'"

And what will you do for filenames containing single quotes then? ;-)
<http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch05s02.html> is worth reading...

[Comment 6 Michał Górny 2014-09-06 21:43:01 UTC]

Does anyone want to do this anymore? It looks like the idea is hard to implement, and TrueCrypt is no more :). I think we should WONTFIX it.

[Comment 7 Ulrich Müller 2014-09-06 21:58:38 UTC]

I believe that this is obsolete: Escape mechanisms for URIs exist, and in addition we have SRC_URI arrows that allow saving the distfile under a reasonable name.