From bc7a59dded57338e9b5e523726b246dbdd4e0935 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:28:17 +0100 Subject: support setting empty values (sanely) & removing support for space-gapping: '-o option= value' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit That is a very old feature (straight from 1998), but it is super surprising if you try setting empty values and instead get error messages or a non-empty value as the next parameter is treated as the value – which could have been empty, so if for some reason you need a compatible way of setting an empty value try: '-o option="" ""'. I can only guess that the idea was to support '-o option value', but we survived 17 years without it, we will do fine in the future I guess. Similar is the case for '-t= testing' even through '-t testing' existed before and the code even tried to detect mistakes like '-t= -b' … all gone now. Technically that is as its removing a feature replacing it with another a major interface break. In practice I really hope for my and their sanity that nobody was using this; but if for some reaon you do: Remove the space and be done. I found the patch and the bugreport actually only after the fact, but its reassuring that others are puzzled by this as well and hence a thanks is in perfect order here as the patch is practical identical [expect that this one here adds tests and other bonus items]. Thanks: Daniel Hartwig for initial patch. Closes: 693092 --- apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.cc | 25 +++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) (limited to 'apt-pkg/contrib') diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.cc index eb48d1d75..c8a6e2787 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.cc +++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/cmndline.cc @@ -205,17 +205,11 @@ bool CommandLine::HandleOpt(int &I,int argc,const char *argv[], /* Determine the possible location of an option or 0 if their is no option */ - if (Opt[1] == 0 || (Opt[1] == '=' && Opt[2] == 0)) + if (Opt[1] == 0) { if (I + 1 < argc && argv[I+1][0] != '-') Argument = argv[I+1]; - - // Equals was specified but we fell off the end! - if (Opt[1] == '=' && Argument == 0) - return _error->Error(_("Option %s requires an argument."),argv[I]); - if (Opt[1] == '=') - CertainArg = true; - + IncI = 1; } else @@ -244,20 +238,11 @@ bool CommandLine::HandleOpt(int &I,int argc,const char *argv[], // Arbitrary item specification if ((A->Flags & ArbItem) == ArbItem) { - const char *J = strchr(Argument, '='); - if (J == NULL) + const char * const J = strchr(Argument, '='); + if (J == nullptr) return _error->Error(_("Option %s: Configuration item specification must have an =."),argv[I]); - // = is trailing - if (J[1] == 0) - { - if (I+1 >= argc) - return _error->Error(_("Option %s: Configuration item specification must have an =."),argv[I]); - Conf->Set(string(Argument,J-Argument),string(argv[I++ +1])); - } - else - Conf->Set(string(Argument,J-Argument),string(J+1)); - + Conf->Set(string(Argument,J-Argument), J+1); return true; } -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2