theupdateframework / theupdateframework/specification
Unclear what asterisk means in delegation paths
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Description
For delegations, some examples seem to use a directory structure where foo/ means foo/bar/, foo/baz, and recursively everything under them. Other examples use what appears to be Unix style globbing like /foo/*.bar which would match foo/baz.bar and so on.
The spec should not actually specify either but say that a TUF implementation could use:
- A directory structure
- Regex
- Unix globbing
- Anything so long as it is well define and the server/client can agree on the method of representing delegated paths
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No file, test, or entry point is named. Locate the delegation-path sections and examples in the specification, compare the directory and Unix-style interpretations described here, and check that the revised text permits an agreed representation without prescribing one method.
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