[gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5.3

[gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5.3

[Daniel Robbins]

Hi All,

Portage 1.5.3 has been released, and contains two basic fixes.  It should no
longer be necessary to backslash-escape double-quotes when using "try", "emake"
or "pmake" (older name for emake).  For example, instead of typing:

	try make CFLAGS=\"$CFLAGS\"

One can now type:

	try make CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"

The only ebuild that has been updated so far is sys-apps/tmpreaper.  All others
will need to be fixed.  Thanks to a message on the MOSIX mailing list that
demonstrated the subtle differences between $* and "$@", which allowed this fix
to happen.

Everyone should upgrade to 1.5.3 as soon as possible.

Dan Armak, if you are up to doing a Portage-wide fix, that would be great :)

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5.3

[Dan Armak]

On Friday 03 August 2001 09:29, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Portage 1.5.3 has been released, and contains two basic fixes.  It should
> no longer be necessary to backslash-escape double-quotes when using "try",
> "emake" or "pmake" (older name for emake).  For example, instead of typing:
>
> 	try make CFLAGS=\"$CFLAGS\"
>
> One can now type:
>
> 	try make CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
>
> The only ebuild that has been updated so far is sys-apps/tmpreaper.  All
> others will need to be fixed.  Thanks to a message on the MOSIX mailing
> list that demonstrated the subtle differences between $* and "$@", which
> allowed this fix to happen.
>
> Everyone should upgrade to 1.5.3 as soon as possible.
>
> Dan Armak, if you are up to doing a Portage-wide fix, that would be great
Hey, I've got enough on my hands! :-) Anyway, what do you mean? Fix the 
backslashing?


-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5.3

[Dan Armak]

On Friday 03 August 2001 10:10, you wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2001 09:29, you wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Portage 1.5.3 has been released, and contains two basic fixes.  It should
> > no longer be necessary to backslash-escape double-quotes when using
> > "try", "emake" or "pmake" (older name for emake).  For example, instead
> > of typing:
> >
> > 	try make CFLAGS=\"$CFLAGS\"
> >
> > One can now type:
> >
> > 	try make CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
> >
> > The only ebuild that has been updated so far is sys-apps/tmpreaper.  All
> > others will need to be fixed.  Thanks to a message on the MOSIX mailing
> > list that demonstrated the subtle differences between $* and "$@", which
> > allowed this fix to happen.
> >
> > Everyone should upgrade to 1.5.3 as soon as possible.
> >
> > Dan Armak, if you are up to doing a Portage-wide fix, that would be great
>
> Hey, I've got enough on my hands! :-) Anyway, what do you mean? Fix the
> backslashing?

A search of all ebuilds gives 108 results containing \" including 58 
containing \"$.


-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5.3

[Daniel Robbins]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:10:58AM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:

> > Dan Armak, if you are up to doing a Portage-wide fix, that would be great
> Hey, I've got enough on my hands! :-) Anyway, what do you mean? Fix the 
> backslashing?

Yep; if you don't have time, don't worry about it.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.