> Hello. > > Path of some utilities in coreutils-6.7-r1 changed from /usr/bin to /bin > and vice versa. This cause some scripts became broken as they relied on > the full path to executable. The question is: does there exist best > practice on how to avoid this problem in future? Should we set some > default PATH in scripts or should we call "command -p program"? Or as > this is mainly problem for scripts that work in cron we should suggest > users to set PATH in crontab? Or may be we should fix coreutils to > create all possible symlinks? > > TIA, > -- > Peter. >
One idea that comes to mind is /usr/bin/env $bin For cron, one would need to set the PATH to something sane though. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
