🐛 Fix __format_variables returning a single space for empty input 🐛

App-breaking bug found during full runtime verification of the act_runner
cache-server feature: gitea failed to start with `Command error: unknown
command: /config/gitea/app.ini` because its `--port` argument was empty.

Root cause: `__format_variables()` ran `printf '%s\n' $input | sort -Ru |
tr '\n' ' '` unconditionally. When `$input` word-splits to zero words
(whitespace-only, e.g. no port env vars set), `printf` with a `%s` format
still runs once with a missing arg, emitting a blank line — so the
function returned a single space `" "` instead of empty. That made
`ENV_PORTS` / `WEB_SERVER_PORTS` resolve to `" "`, which made
`SERVICE_PORT` in `08-gitea.sh` become `" "` — non-empty per `[ -n ... ]`
but rendering as an empty `--port` value to `gitea web`.

- rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/functions/entrypoint.sh: replaced
  `[ -z "$input" ] && return 0` with
  `[[ "$input" =~ [^[:space:]] ]] || return 0` so whitespace-only input
  is treated as empty before reaching the `printf` pipeline
- TODO.AI.md: logged the fix and the upstream-template-sync follow-up

Verified: rebuilt the image and confirmed `gitea will be running on port
80` / `gitea web --port 80 ...` in a full container run (previously
`--port` with no value).

TODO.AI.md

@@ -29,6 +29,19 @@ Update Runbook in AI.md — `functions/entrypoint.sh` is normally regenerated, n
 - `__random_password()` (~line 333): `tr | head -c` pipeline died under `set -eo pipefail` on
   SIGPIPE. Fixed by wrapping in `{ ... } || true`.
 
+## App-breaking bug fixed — __format_variables() whitespace-only input (functions/entrypoint.sh)
+
+Needs syncing back to the upstream template per AI.md's runbook.
+
+- `__format_variables()` (~line 187): `printf '%s\n' $input | sort -Ru | tr '\n' ' '` always
+  emits at least one line even when `$input` word-splits to zero words (whitespace-only), because
+  `printf` with a format containing `%s` runs once even with no args. This made `ENV_PORTS` /
+  `WEB_SERVER_PORTS` resolve to a single space `" "` instead of empty when no port env vars were
+  set, which made `SERVICE_PORT` in `08-gitea.sh` become `" "` — passing the `-n` test but
+  rendering as an empty `--port` arg to `gitea web`, which broke gitea's CLI argument parsing
+  entirely (`Command error: unknown command: /config/gitea/app.ini`). Fixed by replacing the
+  `[ -z "$input" ]` check with `[[ "$input" =~ [^[:space:]] ]] || return 0`.
+
 ## Other observations not yet actioned
 
 - `.gitea/workflows/docker.yaml` uses the same stale/unpinned action pattern (`@v2`-`@v4`, DockerHub-only, `catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest`) that was removed from the `opengist` repo's duplicate workflow — no `build.yml` counterpart exists here yet.

rootfs/usr/local/etc/docker/functions/entrypoint.sh

@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ __get_pid() {
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 __format_variables() {
   local input="${*//,/ }"
-  [ -z "$input" ] && return 0
+  [[ "$input" =~ [^[:space:]] ]] || return 0
   printf '%s\n' $input | sort -Ru | tr '\n' ' '
 }
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