[arch-general] resurrecting srcpac

[Jason Chu]

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Michael Klier <chi at chimeric.de> wrote:
> Dan McGee wrote:
>> I agree, this is a smart move. My only real thought is why have
>> anything in /etc/ at all? It would be great if this could all be done
>> non-root for editing any config settings and such. Maybe ~/.srcpac/ or
>> something?
>>
>> It also seems almost overkill to need another user to build packages,
>> but not sure what to think about that. Anyway, great work with this.
>
> As phrakture pointed out already root is needed for installing packages.
>
> Keeping the configs below /etc is disputable though. You could also have them
> in /var/{?} for example if that fits better.
>
> The separate user is needed for the makepkg part of srcpac. Because your
> invoke srcpac as root/sudo it has to drop privileges for the package build
> process. Of course one could use an existing user (nobody?) and I said this is
> merely a suggestion - however, the script has to drop privileges for the build
> process in a way.
>
> Regards,
>    Michael
>
> --
> Michael Klier

Alrighty, mostly a couple questions:

Would it be an idea to build as the original users who ran srcpac?  I
guess if you use sudo, that won't quite work... you'd need something
pointing back to that user...

I'm a little confused why ${i-*-*-*} doesn't work in all cases.  What
are you trying to fix with the perl code?

Other than that I like everything else.

Jason