[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg.sh.in: fix a GNU-ism in su invocation
Rémy Oudompheng
remyoudompheng at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 15:30:19 EDT 2011
GNU su supports the -c option to specify a command to execute.
However, other flavours of su may have a different interpretation
of the '-c' flag (e.g. FreeBSD and OpenBSD).
The behaviour is correct when '-c' follows an explicit username.
Signed-off-by: Rémy Oudompheng <remy at archlinux.org>
---
See for example:
* OpenBSD manpage at
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=su
* FreeBSD manpage at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=su
On branch 'maint'
scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
index 1c8c50e..69922c9 100644
--- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ run_pacman() {
if [ "$(type -p sudo)" ]; then
cmd="sudo $cmd"
else
- cmd="su -c '$cmd'"
+ cmd="su root -c '$cmd'"
fi
fi
eval "$cmd"
--
1.7.4.4
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