Re: [wmii] Two wmii.rc issues

Unfortunately this problem is still present in portage. A simple
workaround is to use "su -" to get a clean environment as root, and
not "su".

Sorry for bringing up this old thread, but I thought other gentoo
users might find it useful.

Juan Pablo

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Kris Maglione <jg_AT_suckless.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 11:44:03AM +0200, Juan Pablo Aroztegi wrote:
>>
>> /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/bc-1.06-r6/temp/environment: line 1:
>> *=urxvt: command not found
>
> It seems like something does
> env >$temp/environment; . $temp/environment.
>
> Really, this is a bug in their code. Unfortunately, there's no way to unset
> an envorinment variable in rc (Yes, it's lame. Complane to Tom, if you'd
> like, but it won't help). I could always switch to the Unix rc port, and
> earn the neverending ire of some Plan 9 folks, though.
>
>> /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1658: /bin/sort: Argument list too
>> long
>> /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 1658: /bin/tr: Argument list too long
>> /usr/lib/portage/bin/misc-functions.sh: line 433: /usr/bin/find:
>
> These are because rc stores functions in its environment. I'll add code to
> wi_runcmd to unset them; you're not the first to have this trouble.
>
> Something like:
>
> fn `{env | sed -n 's/^fn#([^=]+).*/\1/p'}
>
> Or, you could use zsh, which automagically strips environment variables that
> it doesn't like.
>
> --
> Kris Maglione
>
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