316693 – Portage is unable to source profile.bashrc files when profile path contains newlines

Bug 316693 - Portage is unable to source profile.bashrc files when profile path contains newlines

Summary: Portage is unable to source profile.bashrc files when profile path contains n...

Status:	CONFIRMED

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:	2010-04-22 16:48 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2021-01-12 14:16 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Michał Górny archtester

2010-04-22 16:48:35 UTC

Portage uses newline-separated list to pass the profile path list to the bash code in ebuild.sh. This causes it to fail to properly pass them whenever any of them contains newline characters.

Portage should instead support setting bash arrays in configuration environment (and then, in make.conf). This would add support for special characters in PORTDIR_OVERLAY too.