Bug 647026

Summary:	sys-apps/util-linux-2.31.1 - whereis: ordering of results does not respect $PATH (obeying EPREFIX)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin Mokrejš <mmokrejs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Mokrejš 2018-02-08 17:53:39 UTC

In bug #646882 it turned out that whereis utility ignores my $PATH and reports places where a binary is present. If an application relies on the listing of full paths to whichever binary, it may on Gentooo PREFIX-ed installations execute an executable from say /usr/bin/foo instead of ${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/foo . That could be a different arch and may not even work.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-02-10 11:48:29 UTC

(In reply to Martin Mokrejš from comment #0)
> If an application relies on the listing of full paths to whichever binary[...]

...it definitely shouldn't rely on whereis to provide it. FTFY.

Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-03-02 01:50:31 UTC

I am not sure if this a bug. Please file a bug with upstream at https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues