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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wget.py: support for semi-colons in URL
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On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 16:06 +0000, Bystricky, Juro wrote:
> I tested your suggestion (replacing ";" with "&" in the SRC_URI ) and in my case it did work properly.
> So even if this may not solve everything, I believe this should be properly documented somewhere
> as this seems to be currently the only way to use SRC_URI with semi-colons in URL.
> 
> Note that one still needs to specify the downloaded file name manually, i.e.
> 
> SRC_URI = "http://abc123.com/git/?p=gcc/gcc.git&a=snapshot&h=a5dd47; downloadfilename=myfile.bz2"

A patch adding some comments about this to wget.py would be nice, as
would a patch documenting it in the bitbake manual...

Cheers,

Richard