Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 03:24:31PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> 
>> I have a default value in pkg-server.xml for the content_root property; 
>> there isn't one for --proxy-base.
>>
>> So, if you look at line 363 of depot.py, you'll see that proxy_base is 
>> ignored if no value is specified; an error will not be raised.
> 
> So it has the same ambiguity problem as you were allowing for
> --content-root -- if another option follows it without there being an
> intervening argument (even if that argument is ""), then the option is used
> as the argument.
> 
> If by "no value" you mean "empty value", that's fine, but say so.

I think I finally understand what you were saying earlier.  That's an 
incredibly subtle difference from a user perspective.

In other words:

./depot.py --proxy-base= --mirror

and:

./depot.py --proxy-base --mirror


...are probably indistinguishable to most users visually, but obviously 
are very different functionally as you've pointed out.

I've updated the man page though.

Thanks,
-- 
Shawn Walker
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