On March 27, 2021 2:22:11 PM EDT, Daniel Parks via pacman-contrib wrote:

This allows the user to run their diff program as their own user instead of root. The advantage of this approach is that they can use their own configuration for the editor or even use a GUI merge program such as meld.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Parks --- src/pacdiff.sh.in | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pacdiff.sh.in b/src/pacdiff.sh.in index c4dbd89..aac88c8 100644 --- a/src/pacdiff.sh.in +++ b/src/pacdiff.sh.in @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ LIBRARY=${LIBRARY:-'@libmakepkgdir@'} diffprog=${DIFFPROG:-'vim -d'} diffsearchpath=${DIFFSEARCHPATH:-/etc} USE_COLOR='y' +SUDO='' declare -a oldsaves declare -i USE_FIND=0 USE_LOCATE=0 USE_PACDB=0 OUTPUTONLY=0

@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ Search Options: select one (default: --pacmandb) General Options: -o/--output print files instead of merging them --nocolor remove colors from output + -s/--sudo use sudo to merge/remove files

Environment Variables: DIFFPROG override the merge program: (default: 'vim -d') @@ -109,6 +111,8 @@ while [[ -n "$1" ]]; do OUTPUTONLY=1;; --nocolor) USE_COLOR='n';; + -s|--sudo) + SUDO=sudo;; -V|--version) version; exit 0;; -h|--help) @@ -168,25 +172,29 @@ while IFS= read -u 3 -r -d '' pacfile; do msg "%s file found for %s" "$file_type" "$file" if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then warning "$file does not exist" - rm -iv "$pacfile" + $SUDO rm -iv "$pacfile" continue fi

if cmp -s "$pacfile" "$file"; then msg2 "Files are identical, removing..." - rm -v "$pacfile" + $SUDO rm -v "$pacfile" else ask "(V)iew, (S)kip, (R)emove %s, (O)verwrite with %s, (Q)uit: [v/s/r/o/q] " "$file_type" "$file_type" while read c; do case $c in q|Q) exit 0;; - r|R) rm -v "$pacfile"; break ;; - o|O) mv -v "$pacfile" "$file"; break ;; + r|R) $SUDO rm -v "$pacfile"; break ;; + o|O) $SUDO mv -v "$pacfile" "$file"; break ;; v|V) - $diffprog "$pacfile" "$file" + if [[ -n "$SUDO" ]]; then + SUDO_EDITOR="$diffprog" sudoedit "$pacfile" "$file" + else + $diffprog "$pacfile" "$file" + fi if cmp -s "$pacfile" "$file"; then msg2 "Files are identical, removing..." - rm -v "$pacfile" + $SUDO rm -v "$pacfile" break fi ask "(V)iew, (S)kip, (R)emove %s, (O)verwrite with %s, (Q)uit: [v/s/r/o/q] " "$file_type" "$file_type";

Thank you. Rebased, added support for the new merge feature, and pushed. -- Best, Daniel https://danielcapella.com