[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Option to enable running makepkg in root

[Saul Tigh]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:57 AM Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Note...  there was an --as-root option not that long ago.  It was
> removed for valid reasons.   I will not be accepting a patch that adds
> this back in.  Particularly given I see no justification.  I have
> bootstrapped a LFS build using pacman as a package manager and used a
> dedicated build user throughout.
>
> Allan
>

I know this is perhaps not the right place, but would appreciate it if you
could point out how you managed to achieve bootstrapping LFS build with a
dedicated build user (or maybe share the scripts please).