Re: Mock and environment variables

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Mike McGrath wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>
>
> > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 23:25 -0600, Michael McGrath wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Does anyone know what environmetn variables Mock uses when building a
> > > package?  Specifically I'm interested in PATH
> > >   
> >
> > I'd have thought it'd be the standard "non-root user" PATH, modified by
> > any /etc/profile.d/*.sh entries pulled in using BuildRequires. You could
> > test it by adding a line "echo PATH is $PATH" in %prep, %build etc. of a
> > spec file for something and look in the build.log.
> >
> > Paul.
>
> Interesting mock :
>
> export
> PATH="/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin"
>
> normal user:
>
> PATH="/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/mmcgrath/bin"
>
> Not what I'd expected either, it was causing one of my packages to
> compile with Mock but not with my normal user :-D

Hmm, mock appears to have picked up root's PATH (the sbin entries) 
rather than a regular user environment, which is what I'd have expected 
given that the "mockbuild" user is a regular account.

Paul.