[Touch-packages] [Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

2023-11-14 Thread Dan Bungert
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1097467 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1097467 Merging with LP: #1097467, as documentation fixes are happening there to reflect long-standing upstream desired behavior. ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1097467 bash does not fulfill --rc

[Touch-packages] [Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

2023-06-01 Thread Michael McNeil Forbes
My use case: I want to be able to spawn a clean shell with a customized development environment (python) from a Makefile (i.e. `make shell` runs `bash --init-file .init_file.bash` which does not inherit cruft from the environment (such as activated conda environments, PATHs etc.) ``` shell: b

[Touch-packages] [Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

2023-05-28 Thread MestreLion
> Why does Debian enable -DSYS_BASHRC? This question does not seem to be answered anywhere. It does make sense for Debian (and Ubuntu) to enable SYS_BASHRC by default, as a system-wide /etc/bash.bashrc is a useful (and needed) configuration tool for sysadmins. It's standard behavior for many packa

[Touch-packages] [Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

2023-05-28 Thread Michael McNeil Forbes
What is the status of this? There is a further discussion from Chet here: https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-bash@gnu.org/msg20804.html Why does Debian enable -DSYS_BASHRC? This question does not seem to be answered anywhere. Is there a workaround? Can someone release an alternate version of ba

[Touch-packages] [Bug 589496] Re: bash --rcfile does not behave as documented

2016-09-28 Thread mpb
[TL;DR: Bash developer Chet Ramey claimed in 2015 that this is a documentation bug. Then, in 2016, a documentation patch has been proposed to (and possibly accepted by?) Debian.] On 16 Sep 2016, Chet Ramey released version 4.4 of bash. This inspired me to check and see if this long standing iss