env-update and automated build script

[BackSeat]

Hi all

I have put together a bash script which automates our standard server build. Or at least it would...

It seems that if I put env-update in a script it runs, but the 'emerge system' later fails to complete (the gcc compilation fails). Can someone tell me what exactly env-update does, and is there a way of using it in a bash script that will work?

Thanks,
BS

[AutoBot]

I'm not at my gentoo system right now but I would say you could call env-update by:

[Naan Yaar]

Since env-update is an interactive script that lets you pull in changes to config files intelligently, I am not sure why you would script it. Either run env-update manually after the emerge script or set CONFIG_PROTECT to "" before you run your script and let emerge overwrite your config files (maybe dangerous).

[rac]

I think Naan Yaar is referring to etc-update, not env-update. The Python code that eventuallly gets called by env-update is called "env_update" in /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py.
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[Naan Yaar]

Oops. Sorry. I misread the original post. Thanks for pointing this out, rac.

env-update regenerates /etc/profile.env (and the csh equivalent) from per-package settings.

[rac]