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FS#18610 - makepkg -i shouldn't require sudo

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Linas (Linas) - Monday, 08 March 2010, 18:44 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 06 June 2010, 10:33 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category makepkg
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.3.3
Due in Version 3.4.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
If sudo is not installed, makepkg -i will exit with message:
Cannot find the sudo binary! Is sudo installed?
Missing dependencies cannot be installed or removed as a normal user
without sudo; install and configure sudo to auto-resolve dependencies.

Expected:
In case it cannot find sudo, it should use su

Fix example attached.
   makepkg-i.patch (0.7 KiB)
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 06 June 2010, 10:33 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git /commit/?id=590606a5
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 08 March 2010, 18:58 GMT
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-March/010492.html
Comment by Linas (Linas) - Monday, 08 March 2010, 20:29 GMT
Fixed in negative time :)

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