Package: rtorrent
Version: 0.3.3-1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I inadvertently put something like:
directory=/mytorrents
instead of
directory = /mytorrents
into the ~/.rtorrents.rc file. One thing is that rtorrent _really_ needs
the spaces surrounding the "=" sign, another thing is that the
errormessage is really unhelpful:
Caught exception: "Error parseing option file.
I've attached a patch that adds the faulty line to the error message,
thus giving the poor user (me in this case) a bit more information about
what went wrong. I also fixed the parseing/parsing typo.
- Ole-Morten Duesund
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages rtorrent depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcurl3 7.14.0-5 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-7 GCC support library
ii libidn11 0.5.18-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.10-3 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7g-2 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.0.1-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtorrent5 0.7.3-1 a C++ BitTorrent library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime
rtorrent recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
diff -ur -x '*.o' orig/rtorrent-0.3.3/src/option_file.cc rtorrent-0.3.3/src/option_file.cc
--- orig/rtorrent-0.3.3/src/option_file.cc 2005-09-02 21:16:13.000000000 +0200
+++ rtorrent-0.3.3/src/option_file.cc 2005-09-18 11:23:07.000000000 +0200
@@ -68,8 +68,10 @@
// Check for empty lines, and options within "abc".
if ((result = std::sscanf(line, "%63s = \"%511[^\"]s", key, opt)) != 2 &&
(result = std::sscanf(line, "%63s = %511s", key, opt)) != 2 &&
- result == 1)
- throw std::runtime_error("Error parseing option file.");
+ result == 1) {
+ std::string errormsg = "Error parsing option file.\n:\t" + std::string(line);
+ throw std::runtime_error(errormsg);
+ }
if (opt[0] == '"' && opt[1] == '"')
opt[0] = '\0';
