topic Re: checkinstall scripts PATH set wrong in Operating System - HP-UX

checkinstall scripts PATH set wrong

Jeff Sadowski_2 — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:43:20 GMT

OK after patching my system yesterday and forcing to ignore the checkinstall script for the main package I needed I decided to do more investigating as to what is going wrong
I put an echo into the script to find out what its PATH is set to
I added the line "echo path= $PATH"
and here is the output that gave
path= :/usr/sbin:/usr/lbin/sw
so it only appears to be looking in /usr/sbin for any real commands I think this is happening for all checkinstall scripts so I would like to fix this issue.

Re: checkinstall scripts PATH set wrong

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:18:53 GMT

Shalom Jeff,

I'd look at /etc/profile or .profile because patching rarely if ever changes the location of files or the environment variables. More likely , this is a fault in the system environment.

SEP

Re: checkinstall scripts PATH set wrong

Jeff Sadowski_2 — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:47:07 GMT

seeing

UTILS="/usr/lbin/sw/control_utils"

...

. $UTILS

tells me to lookin

/usr/lbin/sw/control_utils
for the issue

looking at the line
PATH=${SW_PATH%:}:/usr/sbin:/usr/lbin/sw

I see no metion of ${SW_PATH%:}
this looks kind of strange with the %: in there

Re: checkinstall scripts PATH set wrong

Jeff Sadowski_2 — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 12:58:19 GMT

OK so it seems these scripts get environment variables from swinstall such as ${SW_PATH} and ${SW_ROOT} and such
so in order to test them on the commandline I need to set these variables.
Is there a way to see what variables that swinstall sets?

Re: checkinstall scripts PATH set wrong

Dennis Handly — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:24:08 GMT

There is nothing to "fix". SD control scripts can't assume any paths exists other than what it supplies. You can use absolute paths if you know that path is mounted.

>so in order to test them on the commandline I need to set these variables. Is there a way to see what variables that swinstall sets?

Right, I've wanted to do that. Make sure you use sh and not ksh.
Well, you could use env(1) (/usr/bin/env) to list them all. But they are documented in Software Distributor Administration Guide:
http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv2.html#Installing%20and%20Updating
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90979/ch11s04.html#d0e30149

Re: checkinstall scripts PATH set wrong

Jeff Sadowski_2 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:58:59 GMT

The last response answered my question in full.