Bug 315741 – ebuild scripts: UnicodeEncodeError when appending unicode-character path to PORTDIR_OVERLAY

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Michał Górny 2010-04-17 13:18:44 UTC]

The ebuild script fails to append ebuild_portdir to the PORTDIR_OVERLAY envvar whenever the former contains unicode characters:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/mgorny/git/portage/bin/ebuild", line 134, in <module>
    os.environ.get("PORTDIR_OVERLAY","") + " " + ebuild_portdir
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/os.py", line 471, in __setitem__
    putenv(key, item)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0142' in position 14: ordinal not in range(128)

This is because it is trying to implicitly pass unicode string to os.environ. I'm attaching a patch using _unicode_encode() function to encode the argument before passing it to os.environ.

[Comment 1 Michał Górny 2010-04-17 13:23:55 UTC]

Created attachment 228149 [details, diff]
Patch fixing the issue with Py2

I would like to notice that although this patch fixes the issue for Python2, it causes Python3 to fail. I would like to notice too that even before the 'ebuild' script didn't work with Python3.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2010-04-28 06:53:20 UTC]

Thanks, this is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=aab8d3dca843e07866755fc821b9bc9d5004bde5

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2010-08-23 06:19:32 UTC]

This is in 2.2_rc68, but I'll leave this bug open until it's in an unmasked version.

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2010-09-04 08:26:57 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9.