[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-ctl: Prepend OVS binary directories to PATH.

Ilya Maximets i.maximets at ovn.org
Wed Jan 27 17:00:21 UTC 2021


On 10/28/20 8:47 PM, Flavio Leitner wrote:
> The inclusion of LSB functions in ovs-lib resets $PATH to
> system's default. Then ovs-ctl appends missing directories
> including the OVS default ones $sbindir and $bindir.
> 
> The problem is that the wrong binaries can be used if they
> are available in the system's default locations because of
> the PATH wrong order. The same issue happens if one changes
> $OVS_BINDIR or $OVS_SBINDIR variables.
> 
> The solution is to prepend those directories if they are not
> already in PATH.
> 
> Reported-by: Mark Gray <mark.d.gray at redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl at sysclose.org>
> ---

Thanks!  Applied to master.
If you think that this needs to be backported, please let me know.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.


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