[wpkg-users] FW: Test Suite Results

[Stefan Pendl]

> 
> So for now the algorithm to match the name attribute is 
> exactly identical to 
> previous WPKG versions:
> 1. Try to match the strings 1:1
> 2. Try to match IP-addressees
>     Format: "<range>.<range>.<range>.<range>"
>     where <range> is either a digit between 0 and 255 or a 
> range in the format
>     "x-y".
>     e.g. "192.168.0.1-255"
> 3. Transform attribute value into regexp by prepending "^" 
> and appending "$":
>     "test" becomes "^test$"
>     This mode is often used to match multiple hosts with a 
> naming scheme.
>     e.g. "lab-.*" becomes "^lab-.*$"
> 
> Do not confuse (3) with the new extended host matches. If you 
> want to use the 
> hostname attribute instead of the name attribute you have to specify
> hostname="^lab-.*$" directly.
> 
> That's all.
> 
> 
> > The new extended host matching seems to be more robust due 
> to separating the attributes.
> 
> This is absolutely clear. The approach of "name" was to 
> detect the user 
> intention and match the values in a smart way. In fact I 
> think the algorithm to 
> match ip-addresses is pretty smart, but as I see with test 22 
> it was also 
> misunderstood. The regular expression mode of the name 
> attribute does not apply 
> to IP-addresses. If you want to match IP-addresses with the 
> name attribute they 
> need to be specified in range-format with exactly 3 
> separating dots in the 
> expression.
> 

Thanks for clarifying this, so I have to change my hostname match of a package in a profile to make it bulletproof ;-)

I like how things are coming into shape ;-D

Have a pleasant one,
Stefan