Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository
On Tuesday 21 August 2018 11:06:31 David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 21 Aug 2018 at 14:48:25 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 08:02:02AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Odd, maybe apt does not look in $PATH?
> >
> > There's no reason to assume that, unless when looking for an
> > executable (i.e. those things which tend to live in /bin and
> > /usr/bin).
>
> … and then it will of course be hashed, and so waste no time at all.
> But Gene's mention of $PATH was a complete red herring. Or cargo cult.
>
> And consider this: it would be seriously mental to place downloaded
> files, which might even have been obtained from untrusted sources,
> and stick them in your $PATH ready for execution.
I think would be inventing a new word, stoooooppidd.
> > Actually, dpkg's man page mentions $PATH, but only for searching
> > executables, which is to be expected. Not for searching packages.
>
> Yes, and I think one can see why dpkg explicitly mentions $PATH. It
> uses a lot of helper programs for unpacking archives, computing MD5s,
> etc, and $PATH is where they're expected to be. Expected, but people
> using dpkg from the commandline might well have seriously broken
> systems with missing or incompatible binaries, and --force-bad-path
> attempts to deal with that.
>
> > To me, it would be a surprise.
>
> IMO it would be a grave bug in the Debian project's thinking.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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