[gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5.3

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

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,

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