Re: Gnats 4.0/Gnatsweb 4.0 migration problems.

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 14:18 06.11.2001 +0100, Lars Henriksen wrote:
> 2.
> Queries do not work (I have reported this as PR gnats/295).
>
> $ query-pr --expr category="test"
> query-pr: no PRs matched
>
> Whereas
>
> $ query-pr --category=test
>
> returns 18 PRs. I can look at PRs by number, but have had no success with
> regular expressions at all.

You need to quote the query expressions to protect them from shell 
interpretation. The following should work well:

query-pr --expr 'category="test"'

(Appendix D of the manual mentions shell quoting briefly)

> From Gnatsweb 4.0 I get a
>
> Return code: 415 - Invalid expression.
>
> whenever I do a query with something other than "any".

That surprises me, because it works flawlessly in my test setup. Exactly 
what kind of query are we talking about here? Is it from the ordinary Query 
page, or are you using regular expressions in the Advanced query page? 
Could you please describe an exact procedure which reproduces this in your 
setup?

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer