Bug 59624

Summary: Imprecise regexp when adding path components
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mark Cooke <mpc>
Component: setupAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Mark Cooke 2002-02-11 14:01:46 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Then adding path components, a regexp is used as follows:

/bin/grep -q "/sbin"

This can fail to match exactly as desired.  Something along the following lines
is a better description of what was desired:

/bin/egrep -q "(^|:)/sbin($|:)"

Similarly for the other path check-and-add functions.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup the default path with a component that causes incorrect matches
2.Logout and log back in

Actual Results:  The /sbin path is not added to the root path.

Expected Results:  It should have been

Additional info:

$ rpm -qf setup
setup-2.5.7-1
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-03-11 17:15:36 UTC 
Fixed in 2.5.8-1.