From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 08:47:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] To make GIT-VERSION-FILE, search for git more widely
Message-ID: <4A02A008.30800@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vws8te2ht.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> Problem: when git is installed into /usr/local/bin, running 'sudo make
>> install' won't find git in $PATH (because sudo strips PATH, for instance
>> on openSUSE 11.1, and doesn't include /usr/local/whatever).
> 
> That sounds like a bug/misfeature in sudo (which I do not use) to me.

sudo resets the environment, in particular also PATH. Why would this be a bug?

Current distros set env_reset in /etc/soduers for a reason. Not that I
know the reason in detail, but I won't claim that I'm more clever with
regards to security issues than distro packagers; so I trust that if they
do it, then it makes sense.

-- Hannes