Re: rpm -i http://server/url?param issues.

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On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 16:30 -0500, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> I need some people to review our patch to this issue (Bug 143885).
> 
> We publish our software as RPMs for our customers, who fetch it from our 
> web server, but when they need to pass parameters to the server as part of 
> the HTTP GET request rpm thinks it is a file system GLOB and tries to match 
> them. We have disabled globing for HTTP in this patch.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143885
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=110821&action=view
> 

you know about quoting to disable filesystem  globs, right?


just do:

rpm -ivh 'http://someplace/?urlofdoom&%$#'

the single tick will keep bash from expanding it.

-sv


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