[p4] Broker config: Cannot get version to match

Posted on behalf of forum user 'roadkills_r_us'.

Due to a bug that appears to be tied to older p4v clients and the 2017.1 server,
we are requiring new client software to be used. While we have pushed it out to
Linux systems, the users still manage their own Windows and OSX systems. We have
been sending emails explaining the situation, with instructions on upgrading,
but not everyone has done this. We want to bar older clients with the broker.[1]
To this end, we have an entry in the broker config file:

command: .* {
    prog =   P4V;    # case
does not seem to matter here.
        version
=       2015;
    action =     reject;
    message =    "You must use a 2017.1 or
later client. If you need help upgrading your client, please file a ticket or
contact [email protected] .";
}
We cannot get the version field to work. We have tried:

  
-  2015
  
-  2015.2
  
-  2015.*
  
-  .*2015.*
  
-  2015.2/LINUX26X86_64/1458499

If we comment out the version line, the broker happily rejects all p4v clients.
Is the version matching broken, or is there an undocumented trick to make this
work?

[1] We cannot just set the overall minimum client version in the server, as it
will take a bit longer to get the p4 command line client upgrades done.



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