Hi Erich,
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 15:08, Erich Ericson
The following patches should enable doas support for privilege escalation in makepkg as well as document the absence thereof in binary verification. As doas gained a little traction over the last weeks and with its presence in the official repos it seems like a cheap, yet beneficial patch to the featureset of makepkg. It might not be an exhaustive patchset as I don't know all of makepkg's and libmakepkg's intricacies, but it has been tested by me and seems to work as expected. Nonetheless those patches should "point in the right direction".
Disclaimer: A casual pacman contributor, so take this with a grain of salt.
From pacman POV, diversity makes sense.
Although looking at it from Arch side of things, I see a few tidbits: - doas is relatively new - landed in 2019 - community package, while pacman is core (and all it's other deps are core) - no wiki page I don't see a patch which mentions doas in the makepkg manpage? Perhaps we should add something... might even mention sudo/su while in there ;-) HTH Emil