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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:01:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130415120124.317cb7d3@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130415105644.GA5854@gengoff.local.grandmasfridge.org>

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On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:56:45 +0000
"Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org> wrote:
> ROOT being a user set variable, having ROOT be an empty string by
> default still does not guarantee that ROOT won't end with a
> slash. Even if we change it so that it defaults to an empty string, it
> won't negate the need to do ${ROOT%/}/some/path.

The spec guarantees that ROOT will be non-empty and end in a slash. If
Portage isn't enforcing this, file a bug.


-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-15 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-13 21:23 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Cleaning up PMS to have ${D} not end with a slash Michał Górny
2013-04-14  8:31 ` Gregory M. Turner
2013-04-14 10:24 ` Peter Stuge
2013-04-14 11:32 ` Michał Górny
2013-04-14 11:34   ` Michał Górny
2013-04-14 14:14 ` hasufell
2013-04-14 15:01   ` Michał Górny
2013-04-14 14:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-14 14:58   ` Michał Górny
2013-04-14 16:39     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-14 16:59       ` Michał Górny
2013-04-15 10:56         ` Aaron W. Swenson
2013-04-15 11:01           ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2013-04-15 17:31             ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long
2013-04-15 18:54               ` Gregory M. Turner
2013-04-18 23:02                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steven J. Long

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