Bug 563092

Summary:	repoman should reject ebuilds that are not UTF8 encoded
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	SpanKY <vapier>
Component:	Repoman	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563094
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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-10-15 03:01:11 UTC

to prevent mistakes in encoding, we should reject ebuilds that do not decode as utf8.  i think we already do this for metadata.xml, but we should expand it.

i would also like to see it apply to patches, but since we have to patch upstream files that not might be utf8 encoded, we can't enforce it there easily :(.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-10-15 14:31:32 UTC

in fact, PMS already requires ebuilds be UTF8 encoded :)

Ebuild File Format
...  The file encoding must be UTF-8 with Unix-style newlines. ...

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2022-07-12 03:18:39 UTC

repoman support has been removed per bug 835013.

Please file a new bug (or, I suppose, reopen this one) if you feel this check is still applicable to pkgcheck and doesn't already exist.

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2022-07-12 03:32:21 UTC

pkgcheck has InvalidUTF8. Not sure if it's sufficient.