Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Ulrich Müller" <ulm@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Use consistent rules for filenames of ebuils and misc files.
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 19:07:57
Message-Id: 55491506.7090006@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Use consistent rules for filenames of ebuils and misc files. by "Ulrich Müller"
1 On 05/05/2015 06:34 AM, Ulrich Müller wrote:
2 > So far non-ebuild filenames were allowed to contain a colon character.
3 > This is a problematic character as it is illegal in MS-Windows (and
4 > there is a Prefix x86-interix profile) and has special meaning as
5 > remote host indicator in scp and other programs.
6 >
7 > This limits the allowed characters in filenames to [A-Za-z0-9._+-]
8 > which is the same as IEEE Std 1003.1-2013, section 3.278, with the
9 > addition of the plus character. See also bug 411127.
10 > ---
11 > bin/repoman | 4 ++--
12 > pym/portage/repository/config.py | 2 +-
13 > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
14
15 Looks good.
16 --
17 Thanks,
18 Zac