On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:16:24PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> On [12/02/05 16:12], Matt Kraai wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:45:28PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > > I'm following up on bug report 285568 about dput aborting on ftp error. 
> > > I think the ugly traceback has been banned, so we need to decide how to 
> > > proceed with resolving the bug.
> > > I'm pretty much convinced that the current behaviour of stopping the 
> > > upload on error is the right thing to do.
> > > As such, I basically see three options to resolve this bug:
> > > - Have dput print out a note about removing files with dcut when the
> > >   error 553 (Action not taken, file name not allowed) occurs,
> > > - Adding an FAQ entry about using dcut when 553 occurs,
> > > - Not doing anything and just close the bug.
> 
> > > FTP error 553 seems specific enough to put out a warning message (we can 
> > > assume our filenames to be innocent enough unless someone fabricates 
> > > packages with funny names), so I'm kind of leaning towards just doing 
> > > that.
> 
> > I think having dput suggest dcut when this error occurs would be fine.
> > It would be even cooler if it removed it automatically.
> 
> I would be in favour of solution 1, which means printing a note. But
> about removing the file: On the one hand I'm not sure if removing the
> file automatically is a really good idea. And on the other hand I'm not
> sure if it's always possible to remove the file. Won't there be ftp
> servers who refuse to remove the file, when you ask them too?

I don't know, but dcut works, right?

-- 
Matt

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