Bug 670276

Summary:	long arguments are incorrectly parsed when an equal sign is used
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Alon Levy <alevy>
Component:	spice-client	Assignee:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.1	CC:	dblechte, hdegoede, mhasko, mkenneth, tcapek
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	spice-client-0.7.2-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	The spicec program incorrectly parsed long arguments when an equal sign ("=") was used. As a result, an error message was given and the client did not start. This bug has been fixed and the client now behaves as expected.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2011-05-19 13:15:25 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	671383

Description Alon Levy 2011-01-17 18:36:03 UTC

Description of problem:
Parsing for:
 --ca-file=some_path
fails, but
 --ca-file some_path
succeeds.

Fix is upstream:

a91f604 client/cmd_line_parser: fix wrong reporting of bad argument in --bla=val case


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.7.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. execute spicec --ca-file=some_path
2. get strange error message, relating to the previous argument (none in this example).
3.
  
Actual results:
doesn't start, complains about a different previous argument.

Expected results:
start normally.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Hans de Goede 2011-01-25 13:52:04 UTC

A new spice-client-0.7.2-1.el6 fixing this has been build, moving to modified.

Comment 4 Michal Haško 2011-04-08 12:42:33 UTC

VERIFIED on spice-client-0.8.0-2.el6

Comment 5 Tomas Capek 2011-05-17 11:34:23 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
The spicec program incorrectly parsed long arguments when an equal sign ("=") was used. As a result, an error message was given and the client did not start. This bug has been fixed and the client now behaves as expected.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:15:25 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0583.html