tags 597581 + pending
thanks
* Ian Jackson [Die Sep 21, 2010 at 12:25:28 +0100]:
> I've been doing some exciting initramfs hacking and I found that my
> hook scripts were not working because although I call update-initramfs
> with /usr/local/{sbin,bin} on my path, they were being removed.
> $ dpkg -L initramfs-tools | xargs grep PATH
> /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs:export PATH='/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'
> ...
> I don't think this is correct. It seems to have been introduced in
> response to #409995, which was a complaint that (in effect) /sbin
> could be missing from the path.
> The correct approach would be to add /usr/sbin and /sbin to the end of
> PATH, something like this:
> export PATH="${PATH-/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin}:/sbin:/usr/sbin"
I'm sorry that no one seemed to care about this bug for so long.
AFAICS your fix is sitting in branch maks/path of
initramfs-tools.git, so marking this bug as pending, since it's
scheduled for review and inclusion for the upcoming release.
regards,
-mika-
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