configure-tftpsync.sh script returns "invalid option"

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Environment

SUSE Manager 4.1 Proxy
SUSE Manager 4.0 Proxy

Situation

To configure TFTP on a SUSE Manager Proxy, the configure-tftpsync.sh script is run.
It interactively collects details on host names and IP addresses.

On SUSE Manager Proxy 4.x configure-tftpsync.sh returns "Error: Invalid option":

# configure-tftpsync.sh --tftpbootdir=/srv/tftpboot
Error: Invalid option --tftpbootdir=/srv/tftpboot
TFTP Boot directory [/srv/tftpboot]:

Resolution

The SUSE Manager Proxy maintenance updates (susemanager-tftpsync-recv) released February 2021, include the patch fixing the option parsing in configure-tftpsync.

Cause

The script was missing '=*' in the options of the case statement.
Only the option --answer-file (--answer-file=*) parse_answer_file $1;;) had it set correctly.

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