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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage bug ?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:47:05
Message-Id: 20110831094654.GN32672@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage bug ? by Burcin Erocal
1 On 31-08-2011 11:45:27 +0200, Burcin Erocal wrote:
2 > I didn't have time to test the patch myself, since we already have a
3 > report of it not working, here is a justification for my patch...
4 >
5 > AFAICT, the original error message indicates that more arguments are
6 > provided to % than there are place holders in the string. The +
7 > operator has lower precedence than %, so the string is not concatenated
8 > with the part on the previous line. Note that the string in the error
9 > message has 3 place holders only, the fourth should come from the line
10 > above. I added parenthesis around the string addition to fix the
11 > precedence problem.
12
13 Aha. That explains. Now I understand why the fix fixes it as well.
14 I'll apply it ASAP. Thanks a lot!
15
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18 Fabian Groffen
19 Gentoo on a different level

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