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author | Karen Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com> | 2023-05-31 11:26:32 +0300 |
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committer | Karen Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com> | 2023-05-31 11:26:32 +0300 |
commit | 7c37a8d9a6c6b68426fe8f69e12f5f7b1505c0f6 (patch) | |
tree | b7534682158bac2577d6eeb1926cd23c5e3edf0a /libbpkg | |
parent | 60698e1786782a834dcc293968c15ecd8821f548 (diff) |
Advise user to use *-type package manifest value when extension for *-file is not recognized
Diffstat (limited to 'libbpkg')
-rw-r--r-- | libbpkg/manifest.cxx | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libbpkg/manifest.cxx b/libbpkg/manifest.cxx index 152a513..aeb9b0e 100644 --- a/libbpkg/manifest.cxx +++ b/libbpkg/manifest.cxx @@ -4282,7 +4282,16 @@ namespace bpkg bad_value (string ("invalid ") + what + " type: " + e.what ()); } else - bad_value (string ("invalid ") + what + " file: " + e.what ()); + { + // Note that this can only happen due to inability to guess the + // type from the file extension. Let's help the user here a bit. + // + assert (r.file); + + bad_value (string ("invalid ") + what + " file: " + e.what () + + " (use " + string (n, 0, n.size () - 5) + + "-type manifest value to specify explicitly)"); + } } return r; |