28957 – delimiter of PORTDIR_OVERLAY is wrong

Bug 28957 - delimiter of PORTDIR_OVERLAY is wrong

Summary: delimiter of PORTDIR_OVERLAY is wrong

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-09-17 03:19 UTC by Akinori Hattori
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:17 UTC (History)
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Description Akinori Hattori gentoo-dev

2003-09-17 03:19:38 UTC

Portage 2.0.49-r3.

man make.conf:
PORTDIR_OVERLAY = [path]:[different-path]:[etc...]
    Defines  the  directories in which user made ebuilds may be stored and not over-
    writen when `emerge sync` is run.  This is a : delimited list of directories.
    Defaults to no value.

but,

/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py:
5148|
5149| overlays = string.split(settings["PORTDIR_OVERLAY"])
5150| if overlays:


If manpage is correct, portage.py should be
5148|
5149| overlays = string.split(settings["PORTDIR_OVERLAY"], ":")
5150| if overlays:

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.set multiple PORTDIR_OVERLAY that delimited ":"
Actual Results:  
!!! Invalid PORTDIR_OVERLAY entry removed: /usr/local/portage:/usr/local/bugs

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-09-17 04:00:48 UTC

nick: i trusted you and you lied to me ! :x

fixed in cvs