[gentoo-user] bad $PATH

[Jorge Almeida]

I have
/var/lib/bin
in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user)

That directory does not exist. Should it exist!?
What could be setting this?
(grep /var/lib/bin /etc/conf.d/* returns nothing)

Anyone with the same problem/weirdness?

Thanks

Jorge Almeida

[Peter Humphrey]

Post by Jorge Almeida
I have
/var/lib/bin
in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user)
That directory does not exist. Should it exist!?
What could be setting this?
(grep /var/lib/bin /etc/conf.d/* returns nothing)
Anyone with the same problem/weirdness?

Nope. Have you tried 'grep -r var/lib/bin /etc' ?

[Jorge Almeida]

Post by Peter Humphrey

Post by Jorge Almeida
I have
/var/lib/bin
in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user)
Anyone with the same problem/weirdness?

Nope. Have you tried 'grep -r var/lib/bin /etc' ?

/etc/profile.env:export
PATH='/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/17/bin:/var/lib/bin'
/etc/environment.d/10-gentoo-env.conf:PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/17/bin:/var/lib/bin
/etc/env.d/99xstow:PATH=/var/lib/bin
/etc/csh.env:setenv PATH
'/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/17/bin:/var/lib/bin'

So, it seems I have at least one package which I wouldn't expect to
have: app-admin/xstow

I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world file,
hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think I had it once
upon a time. Removing...

Ok, done, and the PATH is fine now.

Thanks,

Jorge

[Neil Bothwick]

Post by Jorge Almeida
So, it seems I have at least one package which I wouldn't expect to
have: app-admin/xstow
I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world file,
hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think I had it
once upon a time. Removing...

emerge -c will remove packages that are in @world. It was probably also a
dependency of something else when you tried before.

[Jorge Almeida]

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Jorge Almeida
I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world file,
hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think I had it

dependency of something else when you tried before.
Hmmm... This would seem to contradict the man page. How would emerge -c

decide which packages in the world file were unwanted? Maybe you're
thinking of slotted packages?

Jorge

[Neil Bothwick]

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Jorge Almeida
I seem to remember I installed a long time ago. It is in the world
file, hence emerge -c wouldn't clean it. I don't have csh but think
I had it

also a dependency of something else when you tried before.

Hmmm... This would seem to contradict the man page.

From man emerge

--depclean, -c
Cleans the system by removing packages that are not
associated with explicitly merged packages. Depclean works by
creating the full dependency tree from the @world set, then
comparing it to installed packages. Packages installed, but not
part of the dependency tree, will be uninstalled by depclean.

It is a little ambiguous in that does the dependency tree from the world
set include the world set itself?

Post by Neil Bothwick
How would emerge -c
decide which packages in the world file were unwanted? Maybe you're
thinking of slotted packages?

No, just tried it. Pick a file from @world and emerge -cpv it.

[***@phoucgh ~ 0]% grep x11vnc /var/lib/portage/world
x11-misc/x11vnc
[***@phoucgh ~ 0]% emerge -cpv x11vnc

Calculating dependencies... done!

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Jorge Almeida
Calculating removal order...

x11-misc/x11vnc
selected: 0.9.16-r8
protected: none
omitted: none

All selected packages: =x11-misc/x11vnc-0.9.16-r8

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Jorge Almeida
'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

Packages installed: 2083
Packages in world: 350
Packages in system: 49
Required packages: 2082
Number to remove: 1

Files in @world should only be wanted because you put them in there, so
you should be able to remove them.

[Jorge Almeida]

Post by Neil Bothwick
you should be able to remove them.
Yes, of course. When I said "emerge -c doesn't clean it" I meant "emerge

-c" (without arguments). I know how to unmerge a package, which in this
particular case I should have done years ago, but didn't, and forgot about
it.

Jorge

[Neil Bothwick]

Post by Jorge Almeida

Post by Neil Bothwick
Yes, of course. When I said "emerge -c doesn't clean it" I meant "emerge

-c" (without arguments). I know how to unmerge a package, which in this
particular case I should have done years ago, but didn't, and forgot
about it.

Right, so we were talking at cross purposes. Apologies for the line noise.

[Jorge Almeida]

Post by Neil Bothwick

Post by Jorge Almeida

Post by Neil Bothwick
Yes, of course. When I said "emerge -c doesn't clean it" I meant "emerge

-c" (without arguments). I know how to unmerge a package, which in this
particular case I should have done years ago, but didn't, and forgot
about it.

Right, so we were talking at cross purposes. Apologies for the line noise.
No problem. Cheers

[Petr Vaněk]

I have /var/lib/bin in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user)
[snip] What could be setting this? (grep /var/lib/bin /etc/conf.d/*
returns nothing)

Do you have app-admin/xstow installed? This seems to be the (only)
package which adds /var/lib/bin to the PATH, see [1]. At least, I was
able to grep -F var/lib/bin pattern only in this package in ::gentoo
overlay.

[1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/c2fb597e863fb296b5cdaf36e8b258b20c47d4a1/app-admin/xstow/xstow-1.1.0.ebuild#L51-L52

Petr

[Jorge Almeida]

Post by Petr Vaněk

I have /var/lib/bin in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user)

Do you have app-admin/xstow installed? This seems to be the (only)

Indeed, I had it in the world file, currently unused and long forgotten.
Solved..

Thanks,
Jorge