[pacman-dev] makepkg, su and output - Was: [PATCH 1/3] makepkg: simplify su/sudo calling logic

[Allan McRae]

On 19/06/10 16:48, Andres P wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> On 19/06/10 10:50, Andres P wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that this still has the "using su fucks up the terminal" bug present
>>> in
>>> 3.4.
>>
>> Still has?  This is the first I am hearing of it...  Is there a bug report
>> about this?
>
> Not afaik, I just experienced it with>=3.4 (I had not tested pacman-git until
> it was released in testing).
>
>>> I can reproduce outside of makepkg:
>>> $ fakeroot bash -c "su -c 'pacman -Q foo'"
>>
>> I can not see anything wrong when using that.
>>
>
> Hmm, but you do confirm that makepkg falling back to su screws up the terminal?

No...  I do not know what you mean by this.  Can you post some output or 
a screenshot?

Allan