Bug 33683 – SRC_URI syntax

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-11-17 09:42:17 UTC]

The latest portage in cvs doesn't use this syntax:
SRC_URI="cjk? ( http://foo/bar.tgz)"

It requires a space before bracket like this:
SRC_URI="cjk? ( http://foo/bar.tgz )"

Is it OK?
I think many ebuilds would encounter error.

[Comment 1 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-17 10:12:48 UTC]

Yes, this has been encountered in the kde-i18n ebuilds.

[Comment 2 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-17 11:29:11 UTC]

This appears to have been a regression from -r8 to -r15.  USE_EXPAND syntax within a SRC_URI doesn't work anymore either.

SRC_URI="linguas_nu? ( blah.tar.bz2 )"

always downloads the package whether or not linguas_nu is set.  the USE environment variable reflects the correct linguas_?? however.

[Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-17 11:50:05 UTC]

Upon further investigation, it seems a lot more random than that.  I can't explain how portage now decides which packages to download based on use expand, but it's definitely not right.

[Comment 4 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-11-18 08:50:09 UTC]

I just made a patch to fix this bug.
I know the patch is workaround.
But I think it's best way for now.

Thanks,
Masatomo

[Comment 5 Masatomo Nakano (RETIRED) 2003-11-18 08:51:22 UTC]

Created attachment 20914 [details, diff]
patch against portage.py

[Comment 6 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-11-28 05:02:42 UTC]

included in cvs