Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] go-module.eclass: ensure that A is less than 112 KiB

[Mike Gilbert]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 6:06 AM Florian Schmaus <flow@g.o> wrote:
>
> Packages with a large number of EGO_SUM entries, i.e., many thousands,
> cause SRC_URI, and in turn A, to become quite large. Prevent issues that
> are caused by large environment variables, e.g., execve() errors (see
> bug #719203), by ensuring that A stays below a reasonable size.

This code will never be reached: if the A environment variable is too
large, portage will fail to execute /bin/bash, and the phase function
will not be executed.

If you want to add an error for this, I think it would require changes
to Portage's python code.