| Summary: | $PATH — /sbin and /bin should be after /usr/* | ||
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| Product: | Portage Development | Reporter: | Michał Górny <mgorny> |
| Component: | Core | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | InVCS |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 2.2 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 210077, 288499 | ||
| Attachments: | Patch to change $PATH set by ebuild.sh | ||
Created attachment 197675 [details, diff]
Patch to change $PATH set by ebuild.sh
Thanks, this is in svn r13935. I copied the order from /etc/profile: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin This is fixed in 2.2_rc37. Not released in 2.1.*. This is fixed in 2.1.7. |
=sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc33 in ebuild.sh defines PATH likes this: PATH=$PORTAGE_BIN_PATH/ebuild-helpers:$PREROOTPATH${PREROOTPATH:+:}/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin${ROOTPATH:+:}$ROOTPATH Is there any real reason to keep /bin and /sbin before /usr ones? In my opinion, /usr/*bin should be placed before /*bin in $PATH. Firstly, /*bin can contain some kind of stripped down versions of utilities which doesn't require /usr to be mounted. And then /usr/*bin would contain full-featured versions which should be used instead if /usr is available. Secondly, this $PATH already contains /usr/local/*bin before /*bin and thus allows user to override root binaries with /usr/local ones. To keep the hierarchy clean we should allow /usr ones to override them too. Moreover, this is the way /etc/profile by default (=baselayout-2.0.1) defines PATH. Thus, if there's no real reason to keep /*bin before /usr/*bin in portage-defined PATH, I think the PATH definition should be modified to: PATH=$PORTAGE_BIN_PATH/ebuild-helpers:$PREROOTPATH${PREROOTPATH:+:}/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin${ROOTPATH:+:}$ROOTPATH