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Hi,

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:31:18 +0200 Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like one can't use ~ in ~/.sbuildrc?
> 
> $ grep log_dir ~/.sbuildrc 
> $log_dir = '~/build/logs';
> 
> $ sbuild $something
> Could not create '~/build/logs': No such file or directory
> Could not create '~/build/logs': No such file or directory
> Could not create '~/build/logs': No such file or directory
> sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.62.3 (11 Jun 2011) on […]
> 
> $ ls -ld ~/build/logs
> drwxr-xr-x 2 kibi kibi 4096 Jun 17 14:24 /home/kibi/build/logs

as Roger already explained adding support for ~ is simple enough but would mean
that the string now needs to be escaped for special characters. This might also
break existing configs which do expect that the string is taken verbatim.

What is your use-case for this feature?

Thanks!

cheers, josch

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