Bug 544738 - cpanspec doesn't escape "/" in --filter-requires leading to bad sed statements
Summary: cpanspec doesn't escape "/" in --filter-requires leading to bad sed statements
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cpanspec
Version: 19
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Šabata
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: https://github.com/silug/cpanspec/pull/6
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-12-06 09:47 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2015-01-12 14:06 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: cpanspec-1.78-19.fc19
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-01-12 14:06:50 UTC
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Escape slashes in filters (1.27 KB, patch)
2014-11-06 15:54 UTC, Petr Šabata
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Description Need Real Name 2009-12-06 09:47:40 UTC
Description of problem:
cpanspec translates each "--filter-requires some_string" into a corresponding sed statement in the corresponding perl-<module>-requires.sh of form:
    -e '/^some-string$/d'

However, when some_string is a path which then contains a slash "/", this causes the sed statement to mess up.

In particular, one of the fuse modules I was compiling had some example perl scripts which began with the line "#/usr/bin/perl." This caused the build to then require "/usr/bin/perl" which I wanted to eliminate. When I added "--filter-requires /usr/bin/perl", it caused *all* the sed statements to fail with the error:
    sed: -e expression #1, char 4: unknown command: `u'

Either the documentation should warn that "/" must be escaped or *better*, the script should automatically escape the forward slashes since the user has no reason to think that "/" is a special character (and indeed, sed could have used just about any character to demarcate the s program)

Comment 1 Need Real Name 2010-01-19 01:17:01 UTC
Is anybody following these bug reports?
It has been 6 weeks since this was reported!!!

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2010-01-19 07:28:35 UTC
Maintainer and upstream of this package is working on it in his free time. Feel free to help and propose a patch.

Comment 3 Need Real Name 2010-01-20 03:54:57 UTC
Thanks for the update - my query was not a complaint as much as just trying to find out if anybody out there was following this bug.

Although I am no Perl expert, I believe that Perl has some very useful paradigms for making sure that regex's are appropriately quoted.

Incidentally, it is a bit ironic that this perl-oriented program (it is cpan2spec afterall) uses 'sed' rather than more powerful 'perl' paradigms to filter. Switching to perl should be simple and would solve the problem using something like the \Q...\E expression.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2010-12-04 02:08:32 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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Comment 6 Steven Pritchard 2010-12-07 20:01:58 UTC
Re-opening...  This is still a valid bug that I'll try to get to ASAP.

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 20:16:49 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

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Comment 8 Petr Šabata 2014-11-06 15:54:00 UTC
Created attachment 954521 [details]
Escape slashes in filters

Comment 9 Petr Šabata 2014-12-01 15:54:29 UTC
Patch accepted upstream.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2014-12-01 16:35:03 UTC
cpanspec-1.78-19.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cpanspec-1.78-19.fc21

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2014-12-01 16:35:24 UTC
cpanspec-1.78-19.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cpanspec-1.78-19.fc20

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2014-12-01 16:35:40 UTC
cpanspec-1.78-19.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cpanspec-1.78-19.fc19

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2014-12-01 16:35:55 UTC
cpanspec-1.78-19.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/cpanspec-1.78-19.el6

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2014-12-12 04:15:09 UTC
cpanspec-1.78-19.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2014-12-12 04:19:47 UTC
cpanspec-1.78-19.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2014-12-12 04:34:48 UTC
cpanspec-1.78-19.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 Fedora Update System 2014-12-17 05:36:00 UTC
cpanspec-1.78-19.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

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