On 12/30/14, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
I just noticed that `makepkg` no longer accepts '--asroot', does that mean there now is no way to convince `makepkg` to build despite being run as root?
/M
P.S. I am fully aware of the problems with building as root, but as I'm only building packages I'm myself creating, and doing it in a docker image, I feel I can live with the dangers... especially when it saves me some work in setting up docker images.
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Building as root was disabled due to other changes.[1] It seems your use-case was either not anticipated or ignored. But you aren't the only one who got inconvenienced. Someone in the comments is building packages in a chroot on android which apparently has issues with fakeroot. Allan McRae suggested recompiling fakeroot with different options; I imagine if there was some way to trick makepkg into running as root, he'd've suggested that instead. [1] http://allanmcrae.com/2014/12/pacman-4-2-released/ -- Eli Schwartz