Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Can an ebuild override CONFIG_PROTECT?

[Zac Medico]

Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> Does emerge actually call 'env-update'? If so, where (I can't find in in
> the code)?
> if not, who performs the environment update when an ebuild is emerged
> (I'm supposing env-update gets called. I didn't call it explicitly in my
> ebuild, yet still /etc/profile.env gets updated with CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK)?
> Amit

Yes, emerge calls env-update automatically. But, you should call
source /etc/profile afterwards in you running shell. Also, there's
this bug which prevents new CONFIG_PROTECT* settings from taking
immediate effect:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276345

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Thanks,
Zac