Bug 481762 – [Tracker] keepdir should be an external command

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Ulrich Müller 2013-08-20 15:43:35 UTC]

keepdir is defined in PMS section 11.3.3.8 "Installation commands" which says:

   These commands must all be external programs and not bash functions or
   aliases—that is, they must be callable from xargs.

All package managers implement keepdir as a shell function, though. Should we fix the spec or the package managers?

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2013-08-22 15:29:08 UTC]

CCing PM maintainers.

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2013-08-22 17:45:19 UTC]

keepdir doesn't set any variables, so there's no reason for it to be a function. Also an external command is more in line with dodir.

Fixed in Portage, as discussed with zmedico:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=77570d9d3df177dc2cb55a83541965a32dd79c67

Changing this bug to a tracker; I'm going to file new bugs for the other PMs.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2013-09-10 00:41:30 UTC]

(In reply to Ulrich Müller from comment #2)
> Fixed in Portage, as discussed with zmedico:
> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;
> h=77570d9d3df177dc2cb55a83541965a32dd79c67

This is released in sys-apps/portage-2.2.2.