[pacman-dev] [PATCH] doas makepkg support

[Erich Ericson]

Hi everyone,
first off, thanks for the constructive feedback on my proposal. I know
that opendoas is quite new in the field and, being an OpenBSD project,
is only documented in the manpages. Even the ArchWiki-Team seems to
only  link to OpenBSD for documentation matters. But with all the
rethinking of certain facilities, take iwd for wpa_supplicant, or
systemd-networkd for certain networkmanager-applications, I felt it
was a good idea to bring opendoas in scope as revamped "diet" sudo.
But taking in consideration that certain features seem to be not fully
shaped out yet, I see that it would have been too early including it
in a core-application.
Anyway if there is already a patch en route to softcode future
elevation techniques, that's even better than Hardcoding another bash
command into the script. I am looking forward to making good use of
that patch!

Cheers,
DaErich

Am Mi., 24. Feb. 2021 um 13:38 Uhr schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>
> On 23/2/21 1:07 am, Erich Ericson wrote:
> > The following patches should enable doas support for privilege
> > escalation in makepkg as well as document the absence thereof in
> > binary verification. As doas gained a little traction over the last
> > weeks and with its presence in the official repos it seems like a
> > cheap, yet beneficial patch to the featureset of makepkg. It might not
> > be an exhaustive patchset as I don't know all of makepkg's and
> > libmakepkg's intricacies, but it has been tested by me and seems to
> > work as expected. Nonetheless those patches should "point in the right
> > direction".
> >
>
> My understanding was that Eli has a patch in the works that allowed
> configuring the command for privilege escalation in makepkg.conf.  This
> is my preferred approach as it avoids adding the new hotness in the future.
>
> Allan