On Monday 10 April 2006 13:15, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:22:59 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>> said:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > It seems that it is becoming more frequent (probably because of the
> > increasing number of Bacula users) that users submit support questions to
> > the bugs database. This morning a user submitted a bug stating that the
> > WildFile option was broken. Normally, I would have dismissed this as a
> > support problem because most of us realize that wild-cards and regexes
> > are awfully tricky.
> >
> > However, this user presented a *really* simple case with debug output, so
> > I took a look at it, and surprise both WildFile and RegexFile are broken
> > because they match against the full path and filename rather than just
> > the filename.
> >
> > I wonder how many users have torn out their hair trying to figure out why
> > WildFile or RegexFile didn't work :-(
>
> Are you really sure that is a bug? I think the word "filename" in the
> documentation is ambiguous, but when it says "No directories will be
> matched by this directive" it does not mean that the matching is performed
> only on the basename part.
>
> The examples in "A Windows Example FileSet" are also written to assume that
> WildFile compares the whole name.
>
> The current behaviour is very useful because it allows files in selected
> directories to be matched, without accidentally matching subdirectories (as
> Wild will do).
>
After a little more thought about this, I'm not so sure I should change the
behavior. It is not what I had originally intended (I didn't program it), but
to change it now, given all the examples in the doc would create a number of
problems.
I think the best solution is to ensure that the documentation is extremely
clear, then if there is really a demand, implement a new option such as
WildFilename that matches against only the filename (basename).
--
Best regards,
Kern
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