Re: bin/53553: gpt biosboot forcibly prepends /usr/mdec to any other paht

[eric%cirr.com@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/53553; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: eric%cirr.com@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/53553: gpt biosboot forcibly prepends /usr/mdec to any other paht
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:43:55 -0500

 Robert Elz writes:
 - The following reply was made to PR bin/53553; it has been noted by GNATS.
 -
 - From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
 - To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 - Cc: 
 - Subject: Re: bin/53553: gpt biosboot forcibly prepends /usr/mdec to any oth
 - er paht
 - Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 07:05:56 +0700
 -
 -      Date:        Sat, 25 Aug 2018 22:20:00 +0000 (UTC)
 -      From:        eric%cirr.com@localhost
 -      Message-ID:  <20180825222000.986E47A111%mollari.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 -  
 -    | 	It seems that gpt is forcibly prepending '/usr/mdec' on
 -    | 	any path that has a directory seperator in it?  Or any file
 -    | 	that is not in the current working directory?
 -  
 -  It uses /usr/mdec for any name that isn't a full path name.   I'm guessing
 -  that when you did the later tests you still have gptmbr.bin installed in
 -  /usr/mdec - it would have been using that one.
 
 It may well have been taking it from the wrwong place when I was
 attempting from the current directory.  I'll acknowledge I
 didn't verify that well enough.
 
 -    | 	Work-around: move to the same directory as the biosboot image file.
 -  
 -  Use a full path name if you want to get the file from elsewhere.
 
 I would have sworn I tried that and got an error.  But I didn't.
 
 -  Whether it could allow more flexibility (not prepend /usr/mdec if the name
 -  starts ./ or ../ as well as /) is someone else's decision, but at the very
 -  least the man page needs improvement.
 
 Yes, please.  If I get bored after getting this problem machine
 to boot, I'll look into that.
 
 Thanks,	
 	Eric
 
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