On Friday 22 January 2010 10:03:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Is it normal that dpkg-reconfigure can be affected by environment > variables? That's pretty normal. Most programs don't go out of their way to ignore your environment settings. dpkg-reconfigure also uses things like LANG and LC_* for when it invokes debconf. > For instance, I have PERL5LIB set to /home/vlefevre/lib/site_perl, > and when I do a "su", this variable is kept in the environment, > and in the strace output on a dpkg-reconfigure, I could see that > $PERL5LIB was searched for Perl modules. You can use (su -) to get a "clean" environment. sudo also has features for cleaning the environment when changing users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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