Bug 192432 – sys-apps/shadow: Patch to make su -l preserve COLORTERM env var

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description srrijkers 2007-09-13 15:08:42 UTC]

For some terminals COLORTERM seems to be the only way for checking for that specific terminal. For instance, gnome-terminal sets its TERM as "xterm" but its COLORTERM as "gnome-terminal". The COLORTERM variable is also of use when running GNU screen since it sets TERM to "screen" but doesn't touch COLORTERM.

Currently su -l only preserves the TERM variable, COLORTERM is unset. This simple patch makes su -l preserve the COLORTERM environment variable as well.

[Comment 1 srrijkers 2007-09-13 15:09:55 UTC]

Created attachment 130837 [details, diff]
shadow-4.0.18.1-su-preserve-colorterm.patch

[Comment 2 srrijkers 2007-09-16 12:18:59 UTC]

I've attached another patch which incorporates the previous one and preserves the STY and WINDOW environment vars as well. These are set by GNU screen and provide a way to query the session name and window number respectively. Like with the COLORTERM variable, I don't know of any other way to query this information which makes these variables invaluable.

[Comment 3 srrijkers 2007-09-16 12:19:44 UTC]

Created attachment 131040 [details, diff]
shadow-4.0.18.1-su-preserve-variables.patch

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2009-02-11 02:53:44 UTC]

this has been merged upstream