On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:28:57AM +0200, Penguin Lover Rumen Yotov squawked: > >You're welcome. What I'd like to know is in which universe portage could > >block bash <puzzled> > > > >It just sounds a bit daft, sort of like OpenOffice blocking mutt... > > > Thinking about it, much of portage is bash-scripts, no. > Maybe some portage features depend on newer bash functions, just guessing. > HTH. Rumen
See bgo#196278 and the bash changelog http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/COMPAT In particular point 29 about handling of the % character in parameter replacement. In short, bash changes behaviour (another one is how special characters in regexp inside a test is dealt with; that one bit me personally). Rather than coding portage to switch function/variable definitions based on bash version, the portage devs feel that it is easier to just make it depend on the newer version of bash. W -- Microsoft Word told me that instead of having "Windows ME and Linux" as my computer expertise on my resume, I should have "Windows, Linux, and I". Sortir en Pantoufles: up 439 days, 14:05 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
