[arch-general] resurrecting srcpac

[Jason Chu]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Michael Klier <chi at chimeric.de> wrote:
> Jason Chu wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Michael Klier <chi at chimeric.de> wrote:
>> > Jason Chu wrote:
>> >> Yeah, put those in your public repo too and then I'll release a new
>> >> version of srcpac.
>> >
>> > Ok, almost finished, though one problem remains. Using nobody actually doesn't
>> > work because when you su nobody -c <command> the system will enforce a
>> > password change.
>> >
>> > That leaves 3 options: a) we use a dedicated srcpac user in case srcpac was
>> > invoked by root or b) make the user configurable in /etc/srcpac.conf or c)
>> > invoke makepkg using sudo -u nobody, that however will add sudo as dependency
>> > to srcpac. Personally I think c) is the best of them.
>> >
>> > Other than that I've added the changes, but because of that missing bit the
>> > version in my repo is not 100% functional at the moment.
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> >    Michael
>>
>> I don't mind sudo as a dependency: c) is fine.
>
> OK then, I've applied that as well and updated the man page too. Now sudo is
> used when invoked by root to drop privileges to nobody and su is used to drop
> privilegs to the user who called srcpac via sudo (using su here to get the
> environment right). From the tests I've done so far everything seems to work
> well (though again, it wouldn't harm if someone maybe checked it too). I also
> haven't touched the version number ;).
>
> Regards
>    Michael
>
> --
> Michael Klier

I'm happy with these changes.  Now the only real question that needs
to be answered should this be srcpac 0.6 or srcpac 1.0?

Jason