On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Jim Pryor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:05:11PM -0500, Ray Kohler wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > does: >> > su -c "$PACMAN $PACMAN_OPTS $@" >> > not work? >> >> No, that somehow gets parsed as: >> >> su -c 'pacman -U' pkgname >> >> Which makes su complain that there's no such user as pkgname. I found >> no other way to get the whole command into a single string other than >> stuffing it into another variable as I did, and I spent over an hour >> trying various things. > > That's the result of the "$@". This should work: > > su -c "$PACMAN $PACMAN_OPTS $*" > > The normal advantages of using "$@" over using "$*" would have been eliminated > in this context, anyway.
Excellent, that does work. Third, and cleanest, patch version follows. >From 65453dfdfe709b1d83e200e478513bb799dcc747 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ray Kohler <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:08:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] makepkg: fall back to su if sudo is not available Signed-off-by: Ray Kohler <[email protected]> --- scripts/makepkg.sh.in | 13 +++++++------ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in index 5bd294c..dcea3a0 100644 --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in @@ -344,8 +344,12 @@ download_file() { run_pacman() { local ret=0 - if (( ! ASROOT )) && [[ $1 != "-T" ]] && sudo -l $PACMAN &>/dev/null; then - sudo $PACMAN $PACMAN_OPTS "$@" || ret=$? + if (( ! ASROOT )) && [[ $1 != "-T" ]]; then + if [ "$(type -p sudo)" ] && sudo -l $PACMAN &>/dev/null; then + sudo $PACMAN $PACMAN_OPTS "$@" || ret=$? + else + su -c "$PACMAN $PACMAN_OPTS $*" || ret=$? + fi else $PACMAN $PACMAN_OPTS "$@" || ret=$? fi @@ -1689,10 +1693,7 @@ fi # check for sudo if we will need it during makepkg execution if (( ! ASROOT && ( DEP_BIN || RMDEPS || INSTALL ) )); then if [ ! "$(type -p sudo)" ]; then - error "$(gettext "Cannot find the sudo binary! Is sudo installed?")" - plain "$(gettext "Missing dependencies cannot be installed or removed as a normal user")" - plain "$(gettext "without sudo; install and configure sudo to auto-resolve dependencies.")" - exit 1 + warning "$(gettext "sudo can not be found; falling back to su for acquiring root privileges.")" fi fi -- 1.7.0
