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List: gentoo-portage-dev
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] Implement host dependencies (HDEPEND) and dependencies only in affe
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier () gentoo ! org>
Date: 2012-09-24 4:39:30
Message-ID: 201209240039.31170.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Sunday 23 September 2012 23:53:10 Zac Medico wrote:
> On 09/23/2012 08:44 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 September 2012 22:06:43 Ambroz Bizjak wrote:
> >> + case "$EAPI" in
> >
> > case ${EAPI} in
>
> If somebody manages to corrupt the EAPI with an invalid value containing
> space, then you can get a bash syntax error there if ${EAPI} is
> unquoted. Yeah, it's a user error, but it could confuse them even more
> than they are already if they see the syntax error and think that
> portage is at fault. Also, we might consider that a corrupt EAPI can
> come from a binary package (or /var/db/pkg) enviroment.bz2, and so it
> may not even be the current user who is at fault.
i don't think that's true. case is sane unlike `test` and `[`.
$ f='a b c'; case ${f} in *) echo yeah;; esac
yeah
-mike
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