On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 12:50:33 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> | SLOT is currently an arbitrary string (without spaces) so general
> | matching of "*" might be useful. Of course, there's no restriction of
> | not using "*" in SLOTs at the moment either...
>
> *shrug* SLOT will have to be tightened up anyway. Otherwise
> SLOT="[foo]" will cause terrible confusion.

Heh. Yep, that's another one. Checking with a quick script, it seems that 
there are 478 unique SLOTs and the regex [a-zA-Z0-9\._\-]* matches them all. 
Perhaps it would be worthwhile locking it down to those characters in repoman 
in preparation? Anybody see a need for characters beyond those?

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