[arch-general] resurrecting srcpac

[Travis Willard]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Michael Klier <chi at chimeric.de> wrote:
> Not clear, at least not to me:
>
>    - undecided whether to keep the package specific configs in /etc/srcpac.d
>      or in /var/srcpac

Of the two, I'd suggest /etc/srcpac.d - it's essentially configuration data.

>    - if called with sudo what would be the benefit to drop privileges to the
>      user who invoked srcpac instead than nobody. AJAIK makpkg doesn't
>      support user specific build options, but the ones set in
>      /etc/makepkg.conf (please correct me if I am wrong on this)

makepkg supports ~/.makepkg.conf as well - additionally, if you use
the original user instead of nobody, then permissions on the final
package file will be nice and pretty too. :)