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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge in shell script ?
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:53:18
Message-Id: 20010630105318.H1587@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge in shell script ? by Parag Mehta
1 On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:16:44AM -0600, Parag Mehta wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > can we call emerge in shell script ?/
5 >
6 > for ex.:
7 >
8 > #Script Start
9 > #!/bin/sh
10 >
11 > emerge /usr/portage/net-ww/htdig/htdig-xxx.ebuild
12 > emerge /usr/portage/net-ww/apache/apache-xxx.ebuild
13 > and so on.
14 >
15 >
16 > #script ends
17 > what are the probable pros & cons ??
18
19 Yes, this'll work. Cons = if you don't test for a non-zero return code from
20 emerge ("if [ $? -ne 0 ]" then it will continue even if the previous emerge
21 failed.
22
23 --
24 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
25 President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
26 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.