[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0005102]: Remove hardcoded paths to SVR4 package tools

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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5102 
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Reported By:                yann
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   5102
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2013-08-16 17:13 CEST
Last Modified:              2013-08-27 21:27 CEST
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Summary:                    Remove hardcoded paths to SVR4 package tools
Description: 
Hi Peter,

Might be strange but I am trying to use pkgutil on a SmartOS server where
pkgadd, pkgrm.. are not available.

I can get them and put them in a different location but most path are to
these tools are hardcoded in pkgutil so this doesn't work out of the box.

So my feature request is: is this possible to modify pkgutil so path to
SVR4 package tools are not hardcoded ?

Thanks in advance for your answer,

Yann
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 (0010561) yann (developer) - 2013-08-27 21:27
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5102#c10561 
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You're right. I saw the standard /usr/bin:/bin paths and assumed that this
was sufficient to have pkgutil find the native tools if they were present
but I went too fast.

So I think the path modification should rather be:
-$ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin';
+$ENV{'PATH'} = '/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/csw/bin';

To answer your question: no I can't, smartos /usr partition is readonly and
I am using a cloud environment where I don't have control on the OS.