Bug 673218

Summary: Anaconda ks.cfg parser fails to understand pciM#n
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paniraj <paniraja_km>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Paniraj 2011-01-27 18:13:03 UTC
Created attachment 475657 [details]
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Description of problem:
Anaconda ks.cfg parser fails to understand pciM#n and instalaltion aborts.
It is interpreting the add-on card as pciM and ignores the the N part after #N
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Comment 1 Paniraj 2011-01-27 18:13:40 UTC
Created attachment 475659 [details]
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Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2011-01-27 18:17:07 UTC
# has been the "comment to end of line" March 25, 2008.  I can't just remove that behavior, and there's no way that I can think of to support both end of line comments and hash marks in arbitrary places in options.  We really need a different character as a delimiter here.