in the man 5 ebuild page it shows examples like the following: HOMEPAGE = "http://happy.com/" that doesn't seem to work corectly in portage, but doing like this is fine: HOMEPAGE="http://happy.com/" (no spaces). Can this be verfied and if it's on more than just my system updated in next version? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man 5 ebuild 2. put HOMEPAGE = "blah" into ebuild file Actual Results: emerge complains "HOMEPAGE command not found" Expected Results: It to happily set the home page This new bugzilla form is nice :)
i did this on purpose ... if you look at the rest of the manpage you'll see that if i removed the spacing on all the variables it would look horrible/unreadable ... at least imo it does ...
okie, the only issue I have with that is that it doesnt work if you paste or format like the samples :/
how about this ... instead of making the formatting horrible, i put a note right after the section header VARIABLES that says 'when assigning values to variables in ebuilds, you cannot have a space between the variable name and the equal sign' ?
Hmm ya guess that would work too, just as long as people don't try to paste from there should be fine ;) P.S. I pasted from there for something and thats how this all started ;)
donesky http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-src/portage/man/ebuild.5.diff?r1=1.31&r2=1.32
