On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 01:43:10 +0000, Juha Kankare via arch-general wrote:
For some reason, ' $ TZ=UTC sudo pacman' and '$ sudo TZ=UTC pacman' both work, but '$ alias pacman="TZ=UTC pacman"' and then '$ sudo pacman' doesn't, even though (from what I know) it should be practically equal to '$ sudo TZ=UTC pacman'. Not sure why, but it was worth a shot.
If you run a command with sudo, it won't expand aliases. You'd need to define an alias for sudo itself (see alias(1p), EXAMPLES section, example 4). Then again, I'm not sure if defining an alias for sudo is considered good practice. Also, for this matter, a wrapper script would be cleaner, as it doesn't depend on which user is running it, in which environment, in which shell, etc.
Any other way to automate this TZ=UTC for pacman so you don't have to type it every time. Maybe a wrapper script aliased to "upacman" or something?
Something like /usr/local/bin/pacman that calls /usr/bin/pacman, for instance (or more robustly, ../../bin/pacman relative to itself, to also account for cases where root is a subdirectory/mountpoint) comes to mind as a not-too-ugly workaround. Best, Tinu