[packagekit] handling input

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 2 03:36:35 PST 2008


Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Jan 1, 2008 2:57 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well, it's an artificial restriction. If you removed the check and used
>> a package_id with a space then everything would still work. The point is
>> _why_ - can and should a package name ever contain a space?
> 
> I have no issue with this restriction on package names; I stumbled over it
> when I tried to set up a repository named "PK test" ...

yum currently don't support spaces in repo names, there was some talk on 
the yum-devel list, about making yum support spaces in reponames, i dont 
remember if the changes is commited yet.

Tim



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