Bug 59624 – Imprecise regexp when adding path components

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Bug 59624 - Imprecise regexp when adding path components

Summary:	Imprecise regexp when adding path components

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	setup (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2002-02-11 09:01 EST by Mark Cooke
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:25 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-02-25 12:43:20 EST
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Description Mark Cooke 2002-02-11 09:01:46 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20020104

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.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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 12:15:36 EST

Fixed in 2.5.8-1.

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