/usrmove and path ordering

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Feb 14 17:23:37 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 17:33 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 17:11 +0100, Ondrej Vasik wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 17:08 +0100, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote:
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> > > Dear developers,
> > > 
> > > Now that the /usrmove changes have landed in the F-17 branch, should
> > > the ordering of directories in PATH be changed? /usr/bin should appear
> > > before /bin and /usr/sbin before /sbin.
> > > 
> > > Right now $(which a-binary) would report that all /usr/... binaries
> > > are located in /bin and /sbin instead; while it is mostly just
> > > cosmetic, some programs (e.g. pure-gen) use the heuristic of computing
> > > their default installation prefix based on the location of another
> > > binary, and get confused if that prefix is empty.
> > > 
> > > Is this a reasonable change? I'll file a bug report if that's the case.
> > 
> > /bin and /sbin paths were already removed in latest setup package - as
> > you no longer need them... so no need for bugzilla and report...
> 
> I'm not sure, but I think bash has hardcoded PATH for /bin and /usr/bin
> as well.

Also, has the default linker path (in glibc, I guess?) been adjusted?
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