Bug 160965

Summary:	app-portage/g-cpan-0.15 breaks when PORTDIR_OVERLAY isn't on one line in make.conf
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Ceregatti <vi>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	graham
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Daniel Ceregatti 2007-01-08 18:12:20 UTC

While using g-cpan 0.15, when PORTDIR_OVERLAY is defined thusly in make.conf:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="
/path/to/overlay1
/path/to/overlay2
/path/to/overlay3
"

g-cpan breaks in the following manner:

g-cpan -i Curses::UI::POE
 * DEFINED OVERLAYS DON'T EXIST!

When PORTAGE_OVERLAYS is defined thusly:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/path/to/overlay1 /path/to/overlay2 /path/to/overlay3"

it works.

In 0.13 and 0.14 this does not happen. It only started since 0.15.

I find that having each overlay directory on a separate line much easier to manage, since I have many overlay directories. I've been using this method on many machines for a very long time now, and it's never presented a problem before. I believe this is a bug. Nothing else in portage has any issues with PORTDIR_OVERLAY being defined in this manner.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Graham Murray 2007-01-08 18:42:55 UTC

Also app-portage/layman creates it include file with one overlay per line.

Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-08 23:09:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 160137 ***