[gentoo-user] Env-update missing

ro...@cs.wisc.edu

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Dec 27, 2011, 12:50:02 AM12/27/11

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I just tried to reinstall Gentoo on my laptop(x86) and after chrooting
into my new install I tried to run env-update but got a command not found.
I looked in sbin and the command isn't there. I downloaded again the stage
3 tarball i686 20111213 from another mirror and I'm still not finding the
command. I feel like a goof for asking but has anyone else run into this
error?

roger

Michael Hampicke

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Dec 27, 2011, 3:50:01 AM12/27/11

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I just downloaded stage3-i686-20111213.tar.bz2
env-update is in '/usr/sbin/env-update'

Did you 'source /etc/profile' first. This normally solves problems like
this.

Mick

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Dec 27, 2011, 6:50:01 AM12/27/11

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I thought the incantation is:

env-update && source /etc/profile

has this changed?
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Mick

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Michael Mol

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Dec 27, 2011, 7:40:01 AM12/27/11

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NAFAIK.

What's in $PATH?

Try /usr/sbin/env-update && source /etc/profile ...

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Dale

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Dec 27, 2011, 8:30:01 AM12/27/11

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Michael Mol wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Mick<michael...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday 27 Dec 2011 08:42:29 Michael Hampicke wrote:
>>>> I just tried to reinstall Gentoo on my laptop(x86) and after chrooting
>>>> into my new install I tried to run env-update but got a command not
>>>> found. I looked in sbin and the command isn't there. I downloaded again
>>>> the stage 3 tarball i686 20111213 from another mirror and I'm still not
>>>> finding the command. I feel like a goof for asking but has anyone else
>>>> run into this error?
>>> I just downloaded stage3-i686-20111213.tar.bz2
>>> env-update is in '/usr/sbin/env-update'
>>>
>>> Did you 'source /etc/profile' first. This normally solves problems like
>>> this.
>> I thought the incantation is:
>>

>> env-update&& source /etc/profile

>>
>> has this changed?
> NAFAIK.
>
> What's in $PATH?
>
> Try /usr/sbin/env-update&& source /etc/profile ...
>

According to the docs, it is this:

livecd / #env-update&& source /etc/profile

So Mick is right. I think it is Mick that posted it correctly. Jeez, lots of Mick, Micheals and such on here. o_O

Dale

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Michael Hampicke

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Dec 27, 2011, 12:00:02 PM12/27/11

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> I thought the incantation is:
>
> env-update && source /etc/profile
>
> has this changed?

No it hasn't, just looked in the gentoo handbook.
I never can remember what command to run first, so I execute both of
them two times :)

Michael Mol

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Dec 27, 2011, 12:00:03 PM12/27/11

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Here's how I understand it:

1) env-update rebuilds /etc/environment from /etc/env.d/.
2) /etc/environment is sourced from /etc/profile, so
3) you get the updated /etc/environment when you source /etc/profile.

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Mark Knecht

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Dec 27, 2011, 2:20:02 PM12/27/11

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E before S (alphabetical) is the way I remember it.

- Mark

Neil Bothwick

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Dec 27, 2011, 3:50:01 PM12/27/11

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On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:57:18 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:

> Here's how I understand it:
>
> 1) env-update rebuilds /etc/environment from /etc/env.d/.
> 2) /etc/environment is sourced from /etc/profile, so
> 3) you get the updated /etc/environment when you source /etc/profile.

Almost, but it's /etc/profile.env that is created by env-update and
sourced by /etc/profile. /etc/environment contains variable settings for
pam.

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