MOVED has extra blank line, breaks portupdate-scan
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 14 18:29:10 UTC 2008
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
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