Package: bash
Version: 3.1-1
Severity: normal
The bash man page says:
--rcfile file
Execute commands from file instead of the system wide
initialization file /etc/bash.bashrc and the standard
personal initialization file ~/.bashrc if the shell is
interactive (see INVOCATION below).
and in "INVOCATION":
When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is
started, bash reads and executes commands from
/etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files exist. This
may be inhibited by using the --norc option. The --rcfile
file option will force bash to read and execute commands from
file instead of /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc.
But as said in bug#343471,
"Debian compiles bash to source /etc/bash.bashrc at startup,
before the user rcfile is sourced."
The man page should be fixed: "Execute commands from file instead of
the standard personal initialization file ~/.bashrc [...]" and "The
--rcfile file option will force bash to read and execute commands
from file instead of ~/.bashrc.", and it should also probably say
that this is specific to Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4-20051215
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii base-files 3.1.9 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii debianutils 2.15.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
bash recommends no packages.
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