From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matthias Andree" Subject: Re: [PATCH] To make GIT-VERSION-FILE, search for git more widely Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 10:40:27 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1241684666-18956-1-git-send-email-matthias.andree@gmx.de> <7vws8te2ht.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Junio C Hamano" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 07 10:40:44 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M1z9k-0004Rt-Q5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 07 May 2009 10:40:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755824AbZEGIkc (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 04:40:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755507AbZEGIkb (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 04:40:31 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:54339 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754340AbZEGIka (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2009 04:40:30 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 May 2009 08:40:30 -0000 Received: from g226231102.adsl.alicedsl.de (EHLO mandree.no-ip.org) [92.226.231.102] by mail.gmx.net (mp054) with SMTP; 07 May 2009 10:40:30 +0200 X-Authenticated: #428038 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/ICsgt9b7ISltSXtuU9vz8IcKRPtNTdYRsnQsrcl 43m5ovUQHGEwZZ Received: from merlin.emma.line.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3DF19402E; Thu, 7 May 2009 10:40:28 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <7vws8te2ht.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.64 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.65 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 07.05.2009, 10:33 Uhr, schrieb Junio C Hamano : > Matthias Andree 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. Some points: 1. sudo is the default sysadmin setup on Ubuntu (more so than on openSUSE) 2. sudo strips the environment by default for security reasons 3. why would we want to use an old git version (rather than an up to date one) to extract the data? -- Matthias Andree