import gdal clobbering PATH on Ubuntu

[Thingus]

Issue: import gdal clobbering PATH

On import, gdal from conda-forge causes a Windows-style path variable to be prepended to PATH

Steps to reproduce the problem.

>>> import os
>>> os.environ["PATH"]
'/home/john/miniconda3/envs/eoenv/bin:/home/john/miniconda3/bin:....'
>>> import gdal
>>> os.environ["PATH"]
'/home/john/miniconda3/envs/eoenv\\Library\\bin;/home/john/miniconda3/envs/eoenv/bin:/home/john/miniconda3/bin...'
>>> 

First reported in OSGeo/gdal#1231 (comment) , referred to here

Environment (conda list):

asn1crypto                0.24.0                   py36_0  
atomicwrites              1.2.1                    py36_0  
attrs                     18.2.0           py36h28b3542_0  
blas                      1.0                         mkl  
boto3                     1.9.35                   py36_0  
botocore                  1.12.35                  py36_0  
bzip2                     1.0.6                h14c3975_5  
ca-certificates           2018.03.07                    0  
cairo                     1.14.12              h8948797_3  
cartopy                   0.17.0           py36hbb7e04d_1  
certifi                   2018.11.29               py36_0  
cffi                      1.11.5           py36he75722e_1  
Click                     7.0                       <pip>
cloudpickle               0.6.1                    py36_0  
cryptography              2.4.2            py36h1ba5d50_0  
curl                      7.63.0            hbc83047_1000  
cycler                    0.10.0                   py36_0  
dask-core                 0.20.2                   py36_0  
dbus                      1.13.2               h714fa37_1  
decorator                 4.3.0                    py36_0  
docutils                  0.14                     py36_0  
expat                     2.2.6                he6710b0_0  
fontconfig                2.13.0               h9420a91_0  
freetype                  2.9.1                h8a8886c_1  
freexl                    1.0.5                h14c3975_0  
gdal                      2.3.3            py36hbb2a789_0  
geojson                   2.4.1                     <pip>
geomet                    0.2.0.post2               <pip>
geos                      3.7.1                he6710b0_0  
giflib                    5.1.4                h14c3975_1  
glib                      2.56.2               hd408876_0  
gst-plugins-base          1.14.0               hbbd80ab_1  
gstreamer                 1.14.0               hb453b48_1  
hdf4                      4.2.13               h3ca952b_2  
hdf5                      1.10.4               hb1b8bf9_0  
html2text                 2018.1.9                  <pip>
icu                       58.2                 h9c2bf20_1  
idna                      2.7                      py36_0  
imageio                   2.4.1                    py36_0  
intel-openmp              2019.1                      144  
jmespath                  0.9.3                    py36_0  
joblib                    0.12.5                   py36_0  
jpeg                      9b                   h024ee3a_2  
json-c                    0.13.1               h1bed415_0  
kealib                    1.4.7                hd0c454d_6  
kiwisolver                1.0.1            py36hf484d3e_0  
krb5                      1.16.1               h173b8e3_7  
libboost                  1.67.0               h46d08c1_4  
libcurl                   7.63.0            h20c2e04_1000  
libdap4                   3.19.1               h6ec2957_0  
libedit                   3.1.20170329         h6b74fdf_2  
libffi                    3.2.1                hd88cf55_4  
libgcc-ng                 8.2.0                hdf63c60_1  
libgdal                   2.3.3                h2e7e64b_0  
libgfortran               3.0.0                         1  
libgfortran-ng            7.3.0                hdf63c60_0  
libkml                    1.3.0                h590aaf7_4  
libnetcdf                 4.6.1                h11d0813_2  
libopenblas               0.2.20               h9ac9557_7  
libpng                    1.6.35               hbc83047_0  
libpq                     11.1                 h20c2e04_0  
libspatialite             4.3.0a              hb08deb6_19  
libssh2                   1.8.0                h1ba5d50_4  
libstdcxx-ng              8.2.0                hdf63c60_1  
libtiff                   4.0.9                he85c1e1_2  
libuuid                   1.0.3                h1bed415_2  
libxcb                    1.13                 h1bed415_1  
libxml2                   2.9.8                h26e45fe_1  
libxslt                   1.1.32               h1312cb7_0  
lxml                      4.2.5            py36hefd8a0e_0  
matplotlib                3.0.1            py36h5429711_0  
mkl                       2018.0.3                      1  
mkl_fft                   1.0.6            py36h7dd41cf_0  
mkl_random                1.0.1            py36h4414c95_1  
more-itertools            4.3.0                    py36_0  
ncurses                   6.1                  hf484d3e_0  
networkx                  2.2                      py36_1  
numpy                     1.15.4           py36h1d66e8a_0  
numpy-base                1.15.4           py36h81de0dd_0  
olefile                   0.46                     py36_0  
openblas                  0.2.19                        0  
openjpeg                  2.3.0                h05c96fa_1  
openssl                   1.1.1a               h7b6447c_0  
owslib                    0.17.0                   py36_0  
pcre                      8.42                 h439df22_0  
pillow                    5.3.0            py36h34e0f95_0  
pip                       18.1                     py36_0  
pixman                    0.34.0               hceecf20_3  
planet                    1.2.1                     <pip>
pluggy                    0.8.0                    py36_0  
poppler                   0.65.0               h581218d_1  
poppler-data              0.4.9                         0  
proj4                     5.2.0                he6710b0_1  
py                        1.7.0                    py36_0  
pycparser                 2.19                     py36_0  
pyepsg                    0.3.2                    py36_0  
pykdtree                  1.3.1            py36hdd07704_2  
pyopenssl                 18.0.0                   py36_0  
pyparsing                 2.3.0                    py36_0  
pyproj                    1.9.5.1          py36h14380d9_1  
pyqt                      5.9.2            py36h05f1152_2  
pyshp                     1.2.12                   py36_0  
pysocks                   1.6.8                    py36_0  
pytest                    4.0.0                    py36_0  
python                    3.6.8                h0371630_0  
python-dateutil           2.7.5                    py36_0  
python-fmask              0.5.3           py36h3010b51_1000    conda-forge
pytz                      2018.7                   py36_0  
pywavelets                1.0.1            py36hdd07704_0  
qt                        5.9.7                h5867ecd_1  
readline                  7.0                  h7b6447c_5  
requests                  2.14.2                   py36_0  
requests-futures          0.9.9                     <pip>
rios                      1.4.6                 py36_1000    conda-forge
s3transfer                0.1.13                   py36_0  
scikit-image              0.14.0           py36hf484d3e_1  
scikit-learn              0.19.2           py36h4989274_0  
scipy                     1.1.0            py36hfa4b5c9_1  
sentinelhub               2.4.7                     <pip>
sentinelsat               0.12.2                    <pip>
setuptools                40.5.0                   py36_0  
shapely                   1.6.4            py36h86c5351_0  
sip                       4.19.8           py36hf484d3e_0  
six                       1.11.0                   py36_1  
sqlite                    3.26.0               h7b6447c_0  
tenacity                  5.0.2                     <pip>
tifffile                  2019.1.4                  <pip>
tk                        8.6.8                hbc83047_0  
toolz                     0.9.0                    py36_0  
tornado                   5.1.1            py36h7b6447c_0  
tqdm                      4.29.1                    <pip>
urllib3                   1.24.1                   py36_0  
utm                       0.4.2                     <pip>
wheel                     0.32.2                   py36_0  
xerces-c                  3.2.2                h780794e_0  
xz                        5.2.4                h14c3975_4  
zlib                      1.2.11               ha838bed_2  

Details about conda and system ( conda info ):

     active environment : eoenv
    active env location : /home/john/miniconda3/envs/eoenv
            shell level : 2
       user config file : /home/john/.condarc
 populated config files : 
          conda version : 4.5.12
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.7.1.final.0
       base environment : /home/john/miniconda3  (writable)
           channel URLs : https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/free/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/pro/noarch
          package cache : /home/john/miniconda3/pkgs
                          /home/john/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /home/john/miniconda3/envs
                          /home/john/.conda/envs
               platform : linux-64
             user-agent : conda/4.5.12 requests/2.21.0 CPython/3.7.1 Linux/4.15.0-43-generic ubuntu/18.04 glibc/2.27
                UID:GID : 1000:1000
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False

[kmuehlbauer]

@Thingus The gdal in the list does not come from conda-forge.

Can't reproduce using conda-forge channel in a fresh environment (using gdal 2.3.3)

[kmuehlbauer]

Reopen if appropriate.

[Erotemic]

Where does conda install gdal come from? When I do conda list I get

# packages in environment at /home/joncrall/.local/conda/envs/py37:
#
# Name                    Version                   Build  Channel
gdal                      2.3.3            py37hbb2a789_0  

which does not specify a channel. Has this issue been reported to the appropriate maintainer? I'm not sure where the correct place to report / track the progress of this issue is.

[ocefpaf]

Where does conda install gdal come from?

Not sure what you mean?

When I do conda list I get

I believe you want https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/configuration/use-condarc.html#show-channel-urls-show-channel-urls

which does not specify a channel.

If no channel is specified then it is from defaults.

Has this issue been reported to the appropriate maintainer?

Nope. It is about defaults and not conda-forge.

I'm not sure where the correct place to report / track the progress of this issue is.

Definitely not in a closed issue. Please open a new one and add the required information for us to help you debug it.

[Erotemic]

Definitely not in a closed issue. Please open a new one and add the required information for us to help you debug it.

Where is the bug tracker for the defaults channel?

[ocefpaf]

Where is the bug tracker for the defaults channel?

That you'll have to ask Anaconda. Here we take care of the community channel conda-forge.