... because of its likeness to the Toolbox logo. Note that the magenta
foreground colour is requested through a terminal escape sequence with
SGR parameters [1]. The specific colour code for magenta is 35.
The main body of the PS1 needs to be split out to prevent Bash from
complaining:
bash: printf: missing unicode digit for \u
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_codehttps://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox/pull/150
The shell start-up scripts are where the PS1 is meant to be set. So
far, the absence of a toolbox-specific start-up script was being worked
around by setting the PS1 as part of the 'podman exec' invocation. This
came with certain limitations. eg., using su(1) or sudo(8) to get a
root shell can overwrite the PS1 set during 'podman exec' with a value
set by the operating system's existing start-up scripts depending on
which environment variables were being retained.
Now that the toolbox has it's own /etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh start-up
script, it's time to move the PS1 to its rightful home.
Since the start-up script and /run/.toolboxenv are present in older
toolbox containers, this change should be fully backwards compatible
and lead to a more robust PS1 without breaking older containers.
https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox/pull/148
This is better than setting an environment variable like
TOOLBOX_CONTAINER with 'podman create' because, unlike environment
variables, it can't be unset later by commands like su(1) or sudo(8).
One nice side-effect of doing it inside 'toolbox enter' is that it
will automatically work with older toolbox containers.
A subsequent commit will switch to using the /etc/profile.d/toolbox.sh
start-up script to set the PS1 instead of doing it as part of the
'podman exec' invocation. Having the identification mechanism work with
older toolbox containers is important to avoid breaking the PS1 for
backwards compatibility.
This reverts commit c7b7fa1867https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox/pull/148
This is a lot more clear and explicit than TOOLBOX_PATH, which is more
of an implementation detail to bind mount the toolbox script inside the
toolbox container.
https://github.com/debarshiray/toolbox/pull/142
