398657 – sys-apps/portage: ebuild helpers should die when given extra arguments

Bug 398657 - sys-apps/portage: ebuild helpers should die when given extra arguments

Summary: sys-apps/portage: ebuild helpers should die when given extra arguments

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2012-01-12 12:10 UTC by Sebastian Luther (few)
Modified:	2022-04-14 05:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Sebastian Luther (few) 2012-01-12 12:10:54 UTC

Currently at least one ebuild helper function (newinitd) silently ignores extra arguments, which leads to some files not being installed (see bug 398655).

All helper functions should instead die if they are given unexpected arguments to avoid such issues.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-01-12 12:42:35 UTC

There's already a QA Notice in the latest release:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=e20df85cf8579aaa9cf07d59efc453d5837a7598

I suspect that this issue is rare enough that we can safely make it die for all EAPIs.