Fix setting config from env with complex (e.g. YAML) strings

So you can do

```
HUGO_OUTPUTS="home: [rss]"  hugo
```

And similar.

Fixes #11249

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/config/allconfig/alldecoders.go b/config/allconfig/alldecoders.go
index a40a02372..6b8a4568c 100644
--- a/config/allconfig/alldecoders.go
+++ b/config/allconfig/alldecoders.go
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ var allDecoderSetups = map[string]decodeWeight{
 		key: "outputs",
 		decode: func(d decodeWeight, p decodeConfig) error {
 			defaults := createDefaultOutputFormats(p.c.OutputFormats.Config)
-			m := p.p.GetStringMap("outputs")
+			m := maps.CleanConfigStringMap(p.p.GetStringMap("outputs"))
 			p.c.Outputs = make(map[string][]string)
 			for k, v := range m {
 				s := types.ToStringSlicePreserveString(v)
diff --git a/config/allconfig/load.go b/config/allconfig/load.go
index b9bb38aaf..8551039a0 100644
--- a/config/allconfig/load.go
+++ b/config/allconfig/load.go
@@ -293,11 +293,19 @@ func (l configLoader) applyOsEnvOverrides(environ []string) error {
 			} else {
 				l.cfg.Set(env.Key, val)
 			}
-		} else if nestedKey != "" {
-			owner[nestedKey] = env.Value
 		} else {
-			// The container does not exist yet.
-			l.cfg.Set(strings.ReplaceAll(env.Key, delim, "."), env.Value)
+			if nestedKey != "" {
+				owner[nestedKey] = env.Value
+			} else {
+				var val any = env.Value
+				if _, ok := allDecoderSetups[env.Key]; ok {
+					// A map.
+					val, err = metadecoders.Default.UnmarshalStringTo(env.Value, map[string]interface{}{})
+				}
+				if err == nil {
+					l.cfg.Set(strings.ReplaceAll(env.Key, delim, "."), val)
+				}
+			}
 		}
 	}