Implementation of a wild card usage for the uniqueext option

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Am Dienstag, den 10.07.2007, 17:09 +0200 schrieb Jochen Schmitt:
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> Hello,
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> I hope, I'm using the right mailing list. If not, I will be happy for
> any hint to discover the right one for this
> topic.
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> During the work on the ppc machine, on which I have access via a ssh
> connection, I have learned knowing about
> the benefits of the --uniqueext option of mock.
> 
> - From my point of view this option has the disadvantage, that you have
> to educate the users to used it.
> So I have try to develop a patch, which allow you to get the expected
> result without the need of
> specified a special option on the command line.
> 
> My idea is that if you set uniqueext to '*' (Star), the userid of the
> logon user should be append on the
> root directory. This behavior allows you, that you can add a
> "config_opts['unique-ext']='*'" line in the
> config files of mock.
> 
> Best Regards:
> 
> Jochen Schmitt
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Surely the normal way command line options like this work is:

1. avoid wildcards and special characters
2. for hacks like this ("*" is a valid value), have a new option for
that, e.g.
config_opts['auto-unique-ext']=1