Re: PATH contains at build time
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On 02/03/2016 09:35 AM, Petr Pisar wrote:
On 2016-02-02, Florian Weimer <fweimer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> May packages assume that /usr/sbin is on PATH when they are built?
>
> If you need a program which is currently only in /usr/sbin, should a
> package use an absolute path, or reset PATH to include /usr/sbin?
>
When I was small, I was tought that sbin is for programs executed by
superuser, therefore only root user's login shell adds sbin into PATH.
Thus the question boils down to: What user does build the package?
But I can forsee the answer for `Does Fedora support building packages as
non-root?' The answer is `defined by koji^Wimplementation'. So does not
have answer.
I would call the programs by absolute path.
Koji/mock will only build as a non-root user.
That said, we have a specific RPM macro for this: %{_sbindir}, which should be
used for calling sbin binaries. (Ditto %{_bindir} for /usr/bin binaries).
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