Bug 398657

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: ebuild helpers should die when given extra arguments
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Sebastian Luther (few) <SebastianLuther>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.