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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; |