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

[Allan McRae]

On 17/1/20 4:11 pm, Saul Tigh wrote:
> 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).


It was quite a few years ago, but a quick google search found this:

https://github.com/benvd/lfs-pacman

Looks very similar to what I did.

I don't know what issue you are running into, so can't help directly.
And it is not particularly pacman related...

Allan