[packagekit] PATH missing in backends

[Thomas Wood]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 08:50 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> Hi Thomas
> 
> 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.
> >
> > Obviously there are several ways to work around this, but I just
> > wondered why PATH would be missing in the first place.
> 
> IIRC, all the env vars are unset by pk_spawn for security's sake.


I guess that sort of makes sense, but unfortunately I have just
discovered the reason Ipkg needs PATH is because it spawns wget to
download packages...

Regards,

Thomas

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