/usrmove and path ordering
Tomas Mraz
tmraz at redhat.com
Tue Feb 14 16:33:39 UTC 2012
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.
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Tomas Mraz
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