Bug 228117

Summary:	Last line in make.conf needs to be a newline, else breakage
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	haarp <main.haarp>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	216231

Description haarp 2008-06-18 16:59:37 UTC

I'm unsure if this is the right component. If not, feel free to change please.

The last line in my /etc/make.conf is this:

source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf

To source layman's make.conf and add the overlays. This statement gets -ignored- if it isn't followed by a newline. That is, if the file directly ends after the statement. Adding a newline after it makes it work magically.

I am unsure if this happens in every case or only if the last statement is 'source'. I haven't got time to test it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add source statement to end of file
2. Remove the trailing newline if present (some editors add them automatically. mcedit doesn't)
3. Try to emerge a package that is supposed to be in one of your overlays

Actual Results:  
The overlays get ignored, emerge complains

Expected Results:  
The overlays get sourced and used for the emerge session

Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-06-18 23:10:27 UTC

Vaguely remember having seen such a bug, but can't find it. Bear with me, Portage team...

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2008-07-28 10:41:58 UTC

This is fixed in 2.2_rc4.