PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin considered harmful

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 09:57:41 UTC 2012


On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 09:50:25 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:

> I assume this error is also an instance of the same problem:
> 
>  Error: Package: 2:samba-common-3.6.5-89.fc17.1.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
>            Requires: /usr/sbin/ldconfig
>            Removing: glibc-2.15-37.fc17.i686 (@fedora)
>                Not found
>            Updated By: glibc-2.15-48.fc17.i686 (updates-testing)
>                Not found
> Error: Package: 2:libsmbclient-3.6.5-89.fc17.1.x86_64 (@updates-testing)
>            Requires: /usr/sbin/ldconfig
>            Removing: glibc-2.15-37.fc17.i686 (@fedora)
>                Not found
>            Updated By: glibc-2.15-48.fc17.i686 (updates-testing)
>                Not found
> 
> ?

No, that was due to hardcoded /usr/sbin/ldconfig paths:

  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=samba.git;a=commitdiff;h=d8012a4f30768375858ab44ec53866fc5c3f9713

and there's a newer update in bodhi already which fixes it.

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