Bug 4926 – bad use of "/" character not checked

Bug 4926 - bad use of "/" character not checked

Summary:	bad use of "/" character not checked

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	1999-09-05 13:16 EDT by tengel
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-12-16 11:09:33 EST
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Description tengel 1999-09-05 13:16:38 EDT

Illegal/accidental use of the "/" character is not checked
in the Version: tag (and possibly others) when RPM reads the
spec file, causing it to fail later in the build process.
Should be changed to check just like "-" is already checked
for.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-12-16 11:09:59 EST

The current design of rpm says
	Everything but '-' is permitted in version/release.
even though, as we both know, certain characters like "%/$:.! \t\r\n" are
bound to produce surprises when version is evaluated in different contexts.
Without a more explicit definition of what is permitted in version/release,
it's impossible to implement a better check than is what already implemented.

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