From 5d477bc956e0033bd2816d48df1f4096856bc5fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benedikt Hegner <hegner@cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 23:19:30 +0200
Subject: fix setting config for list parameters

---
 lib/spack/spack/config.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/config.py b/lib/spack/spack/config.py
index 336d47cbb7..06954f535b 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/config.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/config.py
@@ -545,7 +545,10 @@ def update_config(section, update_data, scope=None):
     # read in the config to ensure we've got current data
     configuration = get_config(section)
 
-    configuration.update(update_data)
+    if isinstance(update_data, list):
+        configuration = update_data
+    else:
+        configuration.extend(update_data)
 
     # read only the requested section's data.
     scope.sections[section] = {section: configuration}
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