cannot use relative paths or ~-expansion when specifying tarball path
Bug #546184 reported by
ntucker
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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MySQL Sandbox |
Incomplete
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Low
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Giuseppe Maxia |
Bug Description
this is a minor one but it's pretty annoying: you can't specify a relative path to the tarball when making a sandbox, and you also can't use shell expansions like '~' for specifying the path.
This is more annoying than it otherwise would be because when the creation fails, the reason given is not anything clear like "Can't find that tarball", so you do not realize that the way you specified the path isn't working.
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The unavailability of relative path is by design. There are too many issues if I allow relative paths.
However, the "~" sign is recognized and expanded into $HOME. Which command were you using?