set-env PATH in Openshift

Question

I'm using a pre_start action hook to add some new paths to the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment.

after git push I can see that variables are updated, however when I ssh to the server, added variables are not available, after some googling I found out this is happening because these variables are exported as a sub-shell.

openshift documentations suggest to add variables using set-env command, but when run it I get following error

rhc set-env PATH=$OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR/bin:$PATH" -a srv
Setting environment variable(s) ... PATH cannot be overridden

Does anybody know how we can overcome this?

Answer 1

If I'm guessing correctly at what you're ultimately trying to accomplish, your trying to write your own cartridge. Recently we just added a new environment variable OPENSHIFT_yourcartname_LD_LIBRARY_PATH_ELEMENT. You can use this environment variable to configure the location of each cartridge's library files