Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > On 1/21/2009 at  2:00 PM, Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > bash (env0)
> >   yast2 (env0.1)
> >     yast2-doSomething (env0.1.1)
> >   zypper (env0.2)
> >   
> I understand from this that I can clear the variable myself from a root
> konsole but yast is unable to do this, correct? As I said previously I
> successfully stopped a fresh instance of zypper from using the proxy by
> clearing the variable from the command line as root.
> Regards
> Dave P

you can do so as root as you're 'working' in bash in which own env0. So all set 
and unset operations go straight there.
As soon as you start another process, it receives a copy of env0 and thus it 
can't change the environment for any command you're going to start from
bash later on.

you as user in bash modify env0, yast will only have access to env0.1 (not a 
problem of yast, it's the way process spawning deals with environments)

Dominique
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