Bug 180079 – Problem with emerge --search "" (error)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description phrexianreaper 2007-05-28 01:08:32 UTC]

When a search is run via emerge --search with "" for the last argument, a traceback is received. Doing the same with emerge --search with no other arguments returns a no search term found message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge --search ""
2.???
3.???

Actual Results:  
error/traceback

Expected Results:  
a search for nothing/everything.


emerge --search ""
Searching...   
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5530, in ?
    retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5506, in emerge_main
    myopts, myfiles, spinner)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4604, in action_search
    searchinstance.execute(mysearch)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 399, in execute
    if self.searchkey[0] == '%':
IndexError: string index out of range

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2007-05-28 07:13:46 UTC]

Created attachment 120499 [details, diff]
fix the KeyError and allow an empty string to match all packages

Thanks, this is fixed in svn r6649.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2007-05-31 01:29:11 UTC]

This has been released in 2.1.2.9.