Bug 787416

Summary:	emerge --ask won't take "Yes"
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Jonathan Snow <jesnow>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787545 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180506
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonathan Snow 2021-05-01 14:58:05 UTC

When emerge has packages to merge it prompts for "Yes/No", but if you type in "Yes"  the response is not understood. 


Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] Yes
Sorry, response 'Yes' not understood. [Yes/No]

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2021-05-01 21:48:20 UTC

I tried to trigger your problem, but it worked for me when I typed Yes, which led me to discover CTRL C issues bug 787542 and bug 787545.

Case insensitivity arises from conversion to uppercase with the upper() calls on this line:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/tree/lib/_emerge/UserQuery.py?h=portage-3.0.18#n65

> 	for key in responses:
> 		# An empty response will match the
> 		# first value in responses.
> 		if response.upper()==key[:len(response)].upper():