Bug 102607 – SRC_URI: spaces not supported

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description kalium 2005-08-15 06:46:56 UTC]

Make wget save "a%20space.tar.bz2" as "a%20space.tar.bz2", not "a
space.tar.bz2". Otherwise we cannot fetch packages with whitespace in their names.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2005-08-15 07:02:52 UTC]

Maybe we can simply add some double quotes around \${URI}.

FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --passive-ftp -P \${DISTDIR} \"\${URI}\""
RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 --passive-ftp -P \${DISTDIR} \"\${URI}\""

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-08-15 10:35:22 UTC]

that doesnt fix internal handling of SRC_URI/A in portage ... personally
i dont think it's really worth the time; dont use spaces in your URLs :p

i'm pretty sure this has been covered before, just cant seem to find the bug

[Comment 3 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2005-08-15 17:41:14 UTC]

spaces won't play nice in the digests either...

[Comment 4 kalium 2005-08-16 05:32:19 UTC]

Just run wget like

wget -O 'filename' '$SRC_URI'

and all is fine because it does not replace the %20 with spaces in that case. So
spaces are no problem in the URL if you use URL encoding...

[Comment 5 kalium 2005-08-16 05:37:54 UTC]

btw: couldn't you allow real spaces by considering escape characters, ie. in the
form "these\ are\ spaces"?

As far as I remember, digest files should not have problems with spaces. At
least not if handled correctly: if there is only one file name per line and all
other fields on the same line have predefined lengths or adjacent separators,
the parsing of such a line should be no problem.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-08-16 05:45:52 UTC]

your sanest bet is what you suggested in Comment #4

[Comment 7 Rick Harris 2005-09-26 19:16:30 UTC]

Created attachment 69314 [details]
Patch to support spaces in SRC_URI

Example:
SRC_URI="http://www.site.com/foo%20bar%20here.tar.gz"

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2005-09-26 19:29:02 UTC]

really shouldnt hardcode that kind of stuff

find an html decoder function which translates encoded URL's to the proper format

[Comment 9 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2006-04-23 09:12:31 UTC]

This was discussed on the portage-dev ml and decided on:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel/2054/focus=2054

Short summary: NOTABUG