446261 – Gentoo Prefix startprefix breaks when PATH is hardcoded in .profile

Bug 446261 - Gentoo Prefix startprefix breaks when PATH is hardcoded in .profile

Summary: Gentoo Prefix startprefix breaks when PATH is hardcoded in .profile

Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo/Alt
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Prefix Support (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Prefix

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Keywords:	Bug

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Reported:	2012-12-06 15:08 UTC by Richard Yao (RETIRED)
Modified:	2017-11-25 21:01 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Richard Yao (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-12-06 15:08:11 UTC

FreeBSD's default .profile has a hardcoded PATH and other platforms (e.g. Mac OS X) likely have it as well:

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/share/skel/dot.profile?view=markup

It is probably a good idea to include a note in the "Gentoo Prefix Bootstrap Process" document about this. It would be even better if bootstrap-prefix.sh did a test for it at the end of the bootstrap process so that it could display a warning to the user.

Comment 1 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2012-12-06 15:09:50 UTC

it did (does)

Comment 2 Fabian Groffen gentoo-dev

2012-12-06 15:11:28 UTC

See bootstrap_startscript in bootstrap-prefix.sh, it should check if PATH is kept/respected.