Cause found

Martin Pitt schrieb am 19.10.2005 09:48:

> Hi!

Hi Martin!

> Christoph Bier [2005-10-18 16:21 +0200]:
> 
>>I guess I found the problem:
>>
>>chris at skull:~$ which install-info
>>/usr/local/bin/install-info
>>
>>But I know that `install-info' resides in /usr/sbin/. The
>>install-info that's found by which belongs to teTeX-3.0 (installed
>>from source):
>>
>>chris at skull:~$ ls -l `which install-info`
>>lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 33 2005-08-07 13:30
>>/usr/local/bin/install-info -> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/install-info
>>
>>It's the order of PATH that calls /usr/local/bin/install-info
>>instead of /usr/sbin/install-info. I guess that's a severe problem.
>>Would it be reasonable to hardcode /usr/sbin/install-info in the
>>prerem and postinst scripts?
> 
> We should rather hardcode a sensible $PATH in the scripts, which would
> have the same effect, but is less intrusive.

Yes, sounds good. I filed a bug reports this morning.

Regards,
    Christoph
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