109670 – emerge problems with whitespace in PORTAGE_TMPDIR

Bug 109670 - emerge problems with whitespace in PORTAGE_TMPDIR

Summary: emerge problems with whitespace in PORTAGE_TMPDIR

Status:	RESOLVED LATER

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2005-10-17 23:38 UTC by Daniel Kenzelmann
Modified:	2005-10-18 05:57 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel Kenzelmann 2005-10-17 23:38:13 UTC

PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/media/EXT XFS/tmp"
emerge vanilla-sources-2.6.13.4 breaks at patching


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to path with whitespace
2. emerge vanilla-sources-2.6.13.4

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2005-10-17 23:47:47 UTC

Even if portage will support this, many of the ebuilds will have problems with
this too. For example:

grep -r "cd \${S}" /usr/portage

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-10-18 05:57:16 UTC

that's a sure fire way to destruction

a lot of packages do things like:
rm -rf ${D}/usr/blah