Bug 117744 - RPM fails to work with backslashes
Summary: RPM fails to work with backslashes
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: i686 SuSE Pro 9.3
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Michael Schröder
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Reported: 2005-09-19 10:52 UTC by Mario Ohnewald
Modified: 2005-09-20 11:27 UTC (History)
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Description Mario Ohnewald 2005-09-19 10:52:38 UTC 
linux:/home/mario # rpm -Uvh My\ Downloads/libtheora-1.0alpha5-0.pm.0.i686.rpm
error: open of My failed: No such file or directory
error: open of Downloads/libtheora-1.0alpha5-0.pm.0.i686.rpm failed: No such
file or directory

## now we cd into the dir and install it:
linux:/home/mario # cd My\ Downloads/ && rpm -Uvh
libtheora-1.0alpha5-0.pm.0.i686.rpm
warning: libtheora-1.0alpha5-0.pm.0.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
5277a2fa
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
...

now it works :/
Comment 1 Michael Schröder 2005-09-20 11:27:42 UTC 
Well, everybody knows rpm is broken. We just have to live with it. 
Anyway, what's going on is that rpm itself also does globbing, so you have to 
quote the args: 
$ rpm -Uvh 'My\ Downloads/libtheora-1.0alpha5-0.pm.0.i686.rpm' 
error: open of My Downloads/libtheora-1.0alpha5-0.pm.0.i686.rpm failed: No 
such file or directory 
I can't fix this. Sorry.