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Bug 989424 - RFE: support spaces in Provides
Summary: RFE: support spaces in Provides
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Status: CLOSED MIGRATED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: rpm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Panu Matilainen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 578256
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-07-29 09:06 UTC by Daniel Mach
Modified: 2023-11-22 09:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2023-11-22 09:44:31 UTC
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Github   rpm-software-management rpm issues 2776 0 None open RFE: support whitespace in manually specified dependencies 2023-11-22 09:56:04 UTC

Description Daniel Mach 2013-07-29 09:06:41 UTC 
I wanted to add extra Provides to the system-release package, for example:
Provides: system-release(codename): Schrödinger’s Cat
I did not get what I expected...


Provides: system-release(codename): Schrödinger’s Cat
->
error: line 20: Illegal char in: Provides:       system-release(codename) = Schrödinger’s Cat


Provides: system-release(codename): Schrodingers Cat
->
system-release(codename) = Schrödinger’s
Cat


Provides:       system-release(codename) = "Schrodingers Cat"
error: line 20: Illegal char '"' in: Provides:       system-release(codename) = "Schrodingers Cat"



I know my use case is not typical, but still I think it should be considered valid. Provides should be able to cope with almost any characters, considering they're properly escaped or quoted.
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2014-08-13 10:12:47 UTC 
Please also allow:

Provides: "/usr/bin/foo - bar - 1.0"
Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2023-11-22 09:44:31 UTC 
This isn't Fedora specific, moving upstream: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/2776
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