[Mageia-dev] default $PATH after UsrMove

[Luc Menut]

Hi,

Le 12/11/2012 12:43, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> 'Twas brillig, and Luc Menut at 11/11/12 18:04 did gyre and gimble:
>> I think that we should drop these dirs from our defaults $PATH, before a
>> future mass rebuild.
>
> Yeah seems sensible.
>
> Col
>

OK

Currently, we have the following cases in Mageia:
1) login normaluser
    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin

2) /bin/su - normaluser   , ssh normaluser
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

3) login root , /bin/su - root  , ssh root
 
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
(there is only one $PATH for root because it is re-defined in 
/root/.bashrc from rootfiles).

So, sometimes we have /usr/local/[s]bin in $PATH before %{_bindir} (2), 
sometimes after (3), sometimes it is not in $PATH (1).

Is there any justification to these differences? (personally I don't see 
any justification to differences between 1. and 2. )

I don't find if there is some specification (POSIX, LSB, ...) about what 
should be in a standard default $PATH, and in which order.

I would prefer if we can unify a bit this, and keep only 2 $PATH, one 
for normal user and another one for root.
So should we have /usr/local/[s]bin in default paths ?
If yes, should it be before or after %{_[s]bindir} ?


My proposal for unified $PATH would be :
A) normaluser
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin

B) root
    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin


Any comments and suggestions welcome !


Regards,
Luc


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Luc Menut