Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:38:34 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Alex Stangl <alex@stangl.us> Subject: Re: MOVED has extra blank line, breaks portupdate-scan Message-ID: <200807141038.39197.beech@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <487B9AF1.7000901@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080714180138.GA69006@scout.stangl.us> <487B9AF1.7000901@FreeBSD.org>
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On Monday 14 July 2008, Doug Barton said: > Alex Stangl wrote: > > /usr/ports/MOVED picked up an extra blank line on the end, > > apparently in v1.1647. This breaks portupdate-scan, and maybe > > other things that process this file. > > > > Is there any definitive document describing this file format? > > Not that I'm aware of. > > > If blank lines should be treated as equivalent to comments, then > > I will issue a fix to portupdate-scan. > > As a general principle you should try to make any application > robust in the fact of unexpected input. > > > hth, > > Doug I fixed it. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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