On Thu 03 Jun 2010 01:48 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:

so i'm trying to update the oracle pkgbuild on AUR. oracle's installer won't run as root, but it thinks that it's running as root. how can I change this? I believe it is supposed to be run as the user and group that it gets installed as what's the best way to add those in the pkgbuild?

Try adding a trivial package function: package() {return 0} or you might be able to manipulate BUILDENV and add !fakeroot.