On 05/11/10 11:27 AM, Danek Duvall wrote:
The last time this code changed at all was in June of 2009, which was build
116, but the basic rejection of underscores in publisher prefixes dates to
April 2008, predating 2008.05.
The malformed URL error you're getting from pkgsend probably has more to do
with the need for a "file://" at the beginning than the underscore.
It's true that the limitation isn't documented anywhere. I'm not sure why
the limitation exists at all; I can't find any discussion about it in the
mailing list. I know I'm a bit of an underscore hater, but not, I think,
to this extent.
It's because publisher prefixes are intended to be forward domain names,
and RFC1123 states that only the ASCII letters 'a' through 'z' , the
digits '0' through '9', and the hyphen (‐) are allowed.
Cheers,
-Shawn
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