[arch-general] resurrecting srcpac

[Jason Chu]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Michael Klier <chi at chimeric.de> wrote:
> Loui wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 May 2008 10:20:37 -0700
>> "Jason Chu" <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>> > 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?
>>
>> Using nobody isn't a bad idea!
>> When it comes to using sudo $HOME isn't changed and $USER becomes
>> $SUDO_USER within the sudo environment. You can then easily find the
>> correct makepkg.conf for user specific build options and such.
>
> So, I am not 100% sure how to proceed from here. First the bits that seemed to
> be cleared:
>
>    - using nobody to build packages when srcpac was called as root is a good
>      idea
>
>    - the get_pkgname() function should be adjusted to use something along the
>      lines of the DB scripts (including support for the "any" arch) to get
>      rid of the perl stuff
>
> Not clear, at least not to me:
>
>    - undecided whether to keep the package specific configs in /etc/srcpac.d
>      or in /var/srcpac

I like srcpac.d.  I didn't comment on that one because it was good ;)

>    - 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)

There is actually a ~/.makepkg.conf like Travis says.  What does it
matter about user specific build options?

> I'd be happy to help and add all these changes and provide patches push it to
> my public repo or whatever you see fit.

Yeah, put those in your public repo too and then I'll release a new
version of srcpac.