Bug 357297 – A space in the path to an ebuild causes failure when running 'ebuild' command

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description David 2011-03-04 03:44:10 UTC]

Running 'ebuild my-program-1.0.ebuild digest' fails (without good explanation) if the path to "my-program-1.0.ebuild" includes a space.

The cryptic error message:

ebuild my-program-1.0.ebuild digest
Appending /root/Desktop/My Files/my-overlay to PORTDIR_OVERLAY...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ebuild", line 157, in <module>
    repo_info = portage.portdb._repo_info[ebuild_portdir]
KeyError: u'/root/Desktop/My Files/my-overlay'



Renaming the "My Files" directory to "My-Files" allows the 'ebuild' command to succeed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2011-03-04 06:34:01 UTC]

Missing `emerge --info` to get Portage version ...

[Comment 2 David 2011-03-04 14:21:43 UTC]

Created attachment 264715 [details]
emerge --info

Output of 'emerge --info' is attached.

[Comment 3 Zac Medico 2011-03-04 16:16:48 UTC]

Created attachment 264731 [details, diff]
portage-2.1.9.42: quote overlays containing spaces

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2011-03-04 16:41:55 UTC]

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=233c2efb6d86d9ac603ba224b71c0b65a64118f7

[Comment 5 Zac Medico 2011-03-14 19:11:10 UTC]

This is fixed in 2.1.9.43 and 2.2.0_alpha27.