[pacman-dev] [PATCH] updpkgsums: Allow checksums upgrade with root

[Sébastien Luttringer]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:

> On 06.04.2013 02:18, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> > Add --asroot into the makepkg call to allow package upgrade when running
> as root.
>
> Now why would you want to do that?
>
To be able to update checksum in a chroot and in a building vm.

Also because the script fail in an ugly manner, asking to add --asroot with
no way to do it.



>
> NACK unless you have a very good reason and make that an option rather
> than a default.
>
Ya and Allan point that it break when you're non-root... really bad patch :/

I see 4 options:
1) Forbid to be run as root with a dedicated message.
I think we should let the user do what they want.
There is really few cases where a makepkg -g can broke thing ran as root.

2) Automatically add the option --asroot when user is root
This allow to update checksum in all case.

3) Update makepkg --asroot to work don't bother us if we are not root.

4) Add getopt to updpkgsums, to handle a new --asroot option.
If we can avoid this and keep the script simple...


Two, seems to me the better one. What do you think?

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