On 16.08.2011 16:48, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:23:06AM -0500, Dan McGee wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Florian Pritz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Running without -u breaks mkinitcpio-git PKGBUILD when running inside >> > the git tree because files will be owned by root instead of the user. >> > This makes git describe believe the tree has changed so it will consider >> > it dirty while git describe outside fakeroot will consider it clean. >> > >> > References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg20973.html >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Florian Pritz <[email protected]> >> >> This sounds like it could cause all sorts of problems with >> repackaging, namely things like `mkdir -p` usage in builds and having >> directories owned by the complete wrong user. Have you tested this on >> anything but your particular use case? >> >> -Dan >> > > Bare minimum, our .PKGINFO file isn't created by the current uid/gid. > I'm not really a fan of this only because I don't know what else it > implies.
Newly created files will default to the current user too, so don't merge this. Sorry for the noise. -- Florian Pritz
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