Bug 217258 - rpm does not work on package file paths containing spaces
Summary: rpm does not work on package file paths containing spaces
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 250990
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Panu Matilainen
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-26 01:24 UTC by David Monniaux
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-10-25 11:13:08 UTC
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Description David Monniaux 2006-11-26 01:24:57 UTC 
Description of problem:
rpm does not work on package files whose access path contains spaces

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.4.2 release 32

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put Fedora DVD into DVD drive
2. LANG=C rpm -qip /media/FC-6\ x86_64\
DVD/Fedora/RPMS/alsa-lib-1.0.12-2.fc6.i386.rpm
3.
  
Actual results:
error: open of /media/FC-6 failed: No such file or directory
error: open of /media/FC-6 failed: No such file or directory

Probably, incorrect escaping of file names in the scripts causes this.

Expected results:
should have queried the package

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2006-11-26 03:23:25 UTC 
A work around is
    cd /media/FC-6\ x86_64\ DVD/Fedora/RPMS
    rpm -qip alsa-lib-1.0.12-2.fc6.i386.rpm
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2006-11-26 19:09:30 UTC 
Fixed in rpm cvs, should be in rpm-4.4.8-0.4 when built.

UPSTREAM
Comment 3 Simo Sorce 2007-06-18 23:52:35 UTC 
This bug is present in RHEL-5 as well, is this fix going to be in 5.1 ?
Comment 4 Paul Nasrat 2007-06-19 08:47:18 UTC 
Quoting or double escaping works:

rpm -qp Some\\\ Stuff/createrepo-0.4.10-1.noarch.rpm 
createrepo-0.4.10-1.noarch

rpm -qp 'Some\ Stuff/createrepo-0.4.10-1.noarch.rpm' 
createrepo-0.4.10-1.noarch
Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-08-21 05:30:02 UTC 
User pnasrat's account has been closed
Comment 6 Panu Matilainen 2007-08-22 06:29:41 UTC 
Reassigning to owner after bugzilla made a mess, sorry about the noise...
Comment 7 Panu Matilainen 2007-10-25 11:13:08 UTC 
Marking as dupe of 250990, this is not going to get fixed for FC6 at this point
anyway.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 250990 ***
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