[packagekit] PATH missing in backends

[Thomas Wood]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 08:59 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2008 8:47 AM, Thomas Wood <thomas at openedhand.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know why the PATH environment variable might be unavailable
> > to a PackageKit backend?
> >
> > Unfortunately libipkg tries to run 'strdup (getenv ("PATH"))', which
> > causes a segfault because getenv returns NULL.
> 
> If you use g_strdup (getenv ("PATH")) you get NULL instead of a segfault.

Ipkg does not use glib.

Regards,

Thomas

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