Bug 275362 – app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1: euse creates broken /etc/make.conf when USE declaration starts with empty line

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description amitds 2009-06-25 07:05:56 UTC]

I have the following USE setup in /etc/make.conf:

USE="
a b
c

-d -e
"

Portage seems ok with this layout.

However, when I euse to enable some other flag, /etc/make.conf gets
corrupted:

amit0 ~ # euse -E f
/etc/make.conf was modified, a backup copy has been placed at
/etc/make.conf.euse_backup
amit0 ~ # grep -A 5 ^USE /etc/make.conf
USE="a b c -d -e f"
a b
c

-d -e
"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See description

Actual Results:  
See description
make.conf is broken.


Suggested workaround is to terminate lines with backslash. 
However, I believe euse and portage should read make.conf in the same fashion: Having portage regard a/m syntax as valid and euse - as invalid seems like a bug to me.

[Comment 1 amitds 2009-06-30 15:34:41 UTC]

I've open a bug in gentoo:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275362

[Comment 2 amitds 2009-06-30 15:35:49 UTC]

oops.. sorry about that last comment.

[Comment 3 Jared Hancock 2009-08-10 02:40:57 UTC]

Fixed in patch attachment to bug #259318

[Comment 4 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2011-01-05 16:13:12 UTC]

Added with the updated euse from bug 259318.  It can be tested using gentoolkit-9999

[Comment 5 Jared Hancock 2011-04-25 02:26:55 UTC]

Can you verify this is fixed in gentoolkit-0.3.0?

[Comment 6 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2011-05-10 23:39:24 UTC]

This was released in gentoolkit-0.3.0