[arch-general] resurrecting srcpac

[Armando M. Baratti]

Michael Klier wrote:
> Jason Chu wrote:
>> 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 don't know if that's possible, because you don't know whether srcpac was
> invoked as root or via sudo. However, maybe a new separate user isn't needed and
> we could just (ab)use nobody for the makepkg calls.
> 

You could test for SUDO_USER environment variable. If it doesn't exists 
then it was not called through sudo and USER would give you the real user.


Armando