Bug 109714

Summary:	emerge fails in revdep-rebuild when input is needed (EULAs)
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Sal Gonzalez <sgonzalez>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	use some exec magic to redirect stdin

Description Sal Gonzalez 2005-10-18 08:04:12 UTC

when revdep-rebuild attemps to emerge '=games-fps/unreal-tournament-451' the
emerge fails when attempting to read stdin, because it is called in a subshell.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a package that requires input need to be rebuilt according to revdep-rebuild
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
the emerge failed (as if i did not except the EULA)

Comment 1 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-10-18 08:05:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37485 ***

Comment 2 Sal Gonzalez 2005-10-18 08:09:27 UTC

Created attachment 70944 [details, diff]
use some exec magic to redirect stdin

A better description of how it works can be found here:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/x12970.html