[Rpm-maint] Does rpm manage file names which include space characters

[WILSON, MICHAEL]

All,

Looking further in the code, the function strtokWithQuotes() also takes into account tokens/file names delimited by double quote characters.

So, a solution would be to generate a migration SPEC file for each package which uses double quotes.
Any thoughts ?

Thanks.

Mike Wilson

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From: WILSON, MICHAEL
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 6:29 PM
To: rpm-maint at lists.rpm.org
Cc: WILSON, MICHAEL
Subject: Does rpm manage file names which include space characters


Good day to All,

I hope this is the appropriate email list for questions concerning potential issues found building/running the rpm command.

Installing the AIX version rpm. 4.9.1.3 on a system already containing a certain number of packages installed using rpm.3.0.5, the migration includes rebuilding the new RPM data base.

When attempting this rebuild for packages python-setuptools-0.9.8 and python-setuptools-devel-0.9.8, the following rpm error messages, due to spaces in file names, are displayed (see below).

Looking at source code for   rpm-4.9.1.3/build/files.c , the issue may be linked to line :

       while ((s = strtokWithQuotes(t, " \t\n")) != NULL) {

This same code appears in version  rpm-4.12.0.1 .

Being new to Open Source projects, I may have missed a relevant patch or bug report.
Is this a known/corrected issue  ?

Thanks in advance.

Mike Wilson



Command used is    "rpm -U -justdb  ..."


Processing files: python-setuptools-0.9.8-2
Two files on one line: /opt/freeware/doc/python-setuptools-0.9.8/CHANGES
Can't mix special %doc with other forms: /opt/freeware/doc/python-setuptools-0.9.8/CHANGES
Two files on one line: /opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/script
File must begin with "/": template
Two files on one line: /opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/script
File must begin with "/": (dev).py
Two files on one line: /opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/script
File must begin with "/": template
Two files on one line: /opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/script
File must begin with "/": (dev).pyc
Two files on one line: /opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/script
File must begin with "/": template.py
Two files on one line: /opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools/script
File must begin with "/": template.pyc

Processing files: python-setuptools-devel-0.9.8-2
Two files on one line: /opt/freeware/doc/python-setuptools-devel-0.9.8/CHANGES
Can't mix special %doc with other forms: /opt/freeware/doc/python-setuptools-devel-0.9.8/CHANGES





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